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repair the damage done to the fort, by the attempts of the 
enemy to fire it after it had been abandoned, and in which, 
owing to its peculiar construction, they but partially 
succeeded. 
The enemy appears as numerous and as widely dis- 
persed as ever, showing themselves in small bodies, but in 
every direction from the Keiskamma to the Sunday River, 
and from the sea-coast to the Storm-bergen. They have 
been attacked wherever met with ; and their loss, as already 
reported, exceeds four hundred killed. In the Zuureberg, a 
considerable body gave battle to a detachment under Lieut.- 
Colonel Somerset, who defeated them with the loss of forty 
men on their side. Twelve posts are occupied on the lines 
of the enemy’s communication with Cafferland. A force of 
four hundred men quitted Graham’s Town on the 9th, 
under Major Cox. Eno’s kraal was attacked and destroyed 
on the 12th. This column, joined by another under Major 
Burney, from Fort Beaufort, was in full march on Tyali’s 
and Macomo’s kraals, the destruction of which will be the 
almost certain result. 
The Honourable Colonel Smith has, with surpassing 
activity, and a minuteness of arrangement that leaves 
nothing to chance, made every disposition, as well for attack 
as defence, not only carrying the war into the heart of the 
enemy’s own country, but employing a large portion of his. 
force in clearing the most dangerous parts of the invaded 
country from the presence of the Caffers, whose numbers 
have as yet undergone no sensible diminution. 
The character of this invasion having been variously 
represented, and the invading force, which is now known to 
consist of numerous Caffers from almost every tribe, much 
underrated, it is fit that its effects, at least, should not be 
misunderstood. These are forcibly described by the gallant 
Commander himself— 
