APPENDIX. 343 
OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. 
* Head-Quariers, Graham Town, February 16th, 1835. 
‘¢ With reference to the notice of the 13th instant, the 
Governor and Commander-in-Chief has the satisfaction to 
announce, that the continued operations of Colonel Smith 
have since been crowned with complete success. 
“On the night of the 14th and in the course of the 15th 
instant, the Caffer tribes of Eno, Botma, Dushanie, and 
some of that of Macomo, were expelled from the remaining 
fastnesses into which they had retired on the evening of the 
12th, and driven altogether over the Keiskamma. 
« Their aggregate loss in killed and wounded has been 
very great. Ours has amounted in the whole of these 
operations to twelve killed and eleven wounded. 
« The cattle which have fallen into our hands since the 
12th amounts to about four thousand head, with large 
quantities of sheep, goats, and some horses. 
« Colonel Smith, who has conducted this necessary and 
important enterprise. with consummate ability, vigour, and 
resolution, praises all the officers and troops employed, 
whether Regulars, Burghers, or Hottentot Levies: to use 
his own expression,—‘ There has not been a man who 
did not well and cheerfully do his duty; and assuredly 
through the whole of this arduous service, in which they 
have driven a determined enemy from strongholds of great 
difficulty, and peculiarly favourable to his mode of fighting 
—patiently enduring great fatigue in a suffocating climate, 
and suffering from an unavoidable scarcity of water,—they 
have never ceased to display an unflinching and persevering 
intrepidity and determination of purpose, of which it is im- 
possible to speak too highly. 
“The wounded are doing well; and all the troops, with 
