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they were waylaid and dispatched with assagais. Mrs. 
Mahony and a child of Mr. Henderson were allowed to 
escape. 
25th.—F urther reports were received from various quarters 
of the daring advance of the Caffers, in such numbers, that 
successful resistance to their progress was utterly imprac 
ticable; the scattered inhabitants, in every direction, were 
compelled to fly from their dwellings, either to an adjacent 
village, or to concentrate in some spot where they might act 
on their defence with some prospect of holding out for a 
short time against the invaders. During Thursday night 
every precaution was taken at Graham’s ‘Town for a deter- 
mined stand in case of attack; most of the women and 
children were received into the flat-roofed houses around the 
Church-square, or took refuge in the church; waggons 
were drawn across the different entrances; guards and 
patroles, both mounted and on foot, posted around the town, 
and every man was under arms. On Friday morning a 
party of twenty of the inhabitants, mounted and well armed, 
proceeded to the scene of the savage butchery of Messrs. 
Mahony and Henderson—one of the most intricate ss 
dangerous defiles along the frontier line. 
No opposition was, however, offered to this little band 
of volunteers, and they at length reached the spot where the 
deed had been perpetrated, and where a scene presented 
itself of the most appalling description. The waggon with 
which the unfortunate individuals were proceeding to Caf- 
fers Drift had been overturned; the property had been 
carefully examined—apparently for arms and ammunition— 
the beds and bolsters cut open, and the contents scattered 
around ; near the hind wheels lay the body of Mr. Hender- 
son, covered with assagai wounds; and a short distance in 
advance, the corpse of poor Mahony, who had received a 
