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frightful wound in the neck, into which he had apparently 
endeavoured to thrust a portion of his shirt, in the vain 
attempt to staunch the blood. The party having covered 
the bodies, proceeded to the dwelling-house of the deceased, 
which had been completely sacked by the marauders; they 
then examined the scene of the murder of Cramer, mentioned 
last week, whose body they interred as well as they could in 
awolf-hole. At night the party reached town in safety. The 
following day another party proceeded with a waggon, deter- 
mined to bring in the dead bodies, and they succeeded in 
their object, as also in recovering the body of a trader 
named Kirkman, who had been murdered near the Fish 
River Drift. On Saturday morning, 27th,a mounted patrole, 
consisting of twenty-one persons, proceeded to scour the 
country through Howison’s Poort, along the skirts of the 
Kariga River. They had dismounted for the purpose of 
grazing their horses for a few minutes, when their attention 
was attracted by the cries of females, and a call for assist- 
ance from a farm-house immediately below them. Obsery- 
ing a man galloping furiously forward, and beckoning to 
them to follow, they instantly rode after him, and shortly 
came to a spot where a party of three farmers were defend- 
ing themselves against about three hundred Caffers, who 
had attaeked them near a certain bush a short distance off, 
and with whom the three farmers were then hotly engaged. 
The latter had taken refuge in a thick clump of bush, and 
were, with the most determined gallantry, defending them- 
selves by keeping up a fire upon the assailants. At the 
approach of the patrole, the Caffers scampered off to the 
adjoining jungle; and there they found the three brave 
men—two brothers, named Ferreira, and one named Cobus 
Buurman, in a most pitiable situation. -One of them had 
received numerous severe wounds, particularly in the abdo- 
