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immediately surrounded, and he was called upon, through 
the medium of a Caffer guide, to lay down his arms and 
surrender, but no inducement could prevail on him to com- 
ply: on the contrary, he threw an assagai which nearly 
proved fatal to one of the patrol. The infatuated savage 
was ultimately fired upon from a height above the Love- 
dale Institution, and killed. Colonel Smith then proceeded 
to reconnoitre the position occupied on the Amatoli by the 
enemy under Tyali. On the 25th Colonel Smith received 
information from Field Commandant Rademeyer, that it 
had been reported to him by the Chief Pato that the ene- 
my intended to attack the latter, and also one of Rade- 
meyers posts on the line of the Keiskamma, and then 
to re-occupy his old position in the Fish River Bush. 
Although this information was considered extravagant, 
yet as a party of five Caffers had been observed prowling 
about the camp, and five more in the neighbourhood of Fort 
Wiltshire, one of whom was shot, the Chief of the Staff 
thought it proper to take such precautionary measures as 
might check such a movement should it be attempted. Ac- 
cordingly a strong patrol was marched direct to the line 
across which the enemy must necessarily pass from his 
position on the Amatoli, should he make the attack in 
question. This patrol was further directed, in the event of 
falling in with the spoor of the enemy, to follow it wherever 
it might lead to. Colonel Smith himself, with his usual 
activity and decision, took the command of this party, which 
consisted of two hundred of the Swellendam Burghers, 
under the command of the veteran and gallant old Field- 
Commandant Linde, one hundred Albany Burghers under 
Field-Commandant Dreyer, a detachment of the Cape 
Mounted Rifles, under Ensign Lowen, and thirty of the 
Corps of Guides, under Messrs. Bowker, Driver, and 
