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don every thing, as it would be imprudent to delay for 
waggons, and thus risk their own safety. Mr. and Mrs. 
Bennie are still at Lovedale. I wish we could afford them 
succour, but from this quarter I fear it is impossible. 
Messrs. Keyser and Ross have retired to Burn’s Hill.” We 
are glad to add to this intelligence, that Messrs. Chalmers 
and Weir, with their families, succeeded in gaining the en- 
campment in safety. 
We are informed also, that before Major Cox returned 
with his detachment from Tyali’s territory, he heard that 
a post of observation, consisting of forty-five Caffers, with 
muskets, had been left by that Chief on the top of the Chu- 
mie Mountain, and in the forest on its side. No situation 
could, it appears, have been better selected for the purpose 
intended, as from thence the whole country for a distance 
of fifty miles within the Colonial boundary can be over- 
looked: Major Burney, who had united himself to Major 
Cox’s command, was directed therefore to dislodge this 
party if possible, but at present we have no information of 
his having effected this cbject. We learn also from the 
same source that the Chiefs T'yali and Macomo, and some 
other Chiefs, with a large force, have taken up a position 
on the Amatola, asmall stream running into the Keis- 
kamma, situated in a most difficult mountainous part of 
Cafferland, full of kloofs and ravines, where it is ex- 
ceedingly difficult for horsemen to act with any effect. 
From Somerset, accounts up to the 17th imstant state, 
that at the Field Cornetcies of East Riet River, and Ba- 
viaan’s River, from Winterberg to the latter, and from the 
Konap to Kaga, and from thence to near the Fish River, 
have been all laid waste by the enemy. The acting Civil 
Commissioner was incessantly employed in making the best 
disposition with the small disposable force he could com- 
