This letter was written just before the start of the Anglo-Zulu campaign and reads as follows:

'Perie Bush April 17th 1878

Dear Father and Mother and Sisters

I have had a chance once more to write to you a few lines to let you now all that I am safe and healthy at preasant and hope that you are all the same. Dear Father and Mother I hope. that we shall meet once more if the Lord pleace I ham in a strange country but got plenty of friends wher are all 4 Jolly Welshmen together not liveing very fare from one another to the reason that I did not write sooner I have had no chance whe whent on board the ship on the first of February and whe sail out on the second of the same date and whe reach Madera in 5 days but whe did not stop there at all whe stop at Simons Bay one night and a day and then whe sail on to East London in 38 days that was the 10th of March and I was not thinking nothing about Llangyfalach fair then only just now I was glad to have my feet on Land once more I casn tell you. Whe stop at East London one night and then march up the country a few miles and whe with the train about 40 miles to King Williamson whe stop there two nights no train to further and march then on 13th March across the river Buffilo and to a place they call Green River stop there one night next day whe march to Baily's Grave and from there to Perie Bush hear I have all wonders. Evry sort of Birds monkys one particular thing I have notice his a Grasspoper his so big has a black bird wonderful sise and you can see a Butterfly so big has any of the Black Martin his building in Hebron Chapel there his millions of goats her Buloxe and nothing to be seen very pretty whe had a weding here today two natives of the fingoes tribe the young man give to old woman the young womans another the best ten head of cattle and then they go to church a few minutes and come out and then they have man and wife but a Boar and a Sow I call them myselfe. I got plenty to eat here you can by a sheep for five shillings good one to I can say now that I have full oranges from the tree without asking anybody so now I much conclude with my kind love to you all many times give my kind love to little Sally if she his alive and let me now how she his comeing on I am going on sentry now I will write one every week now if I can this morning I had the paper and stamp.

From youre truly Son

G.E.J.Griffiths'