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Umkongloof, and hid himself with the remnant 
of his forces, for a considerable time, in the 
woods skirting the Umyaloos river. 
"The emigrants having had only three or 
fonr men killed, and as many wounded, in this 
decisive engagement (among the latter of whom 
was Pretorius himself), advanced npon the town 
of Umkongloof, which they still found partially 
bnrning, and, on the awfnl hillock out of the 
town, they beheld, on one vast pile, the bones 
and remains of Eetief, and their one hundred 
companions in arms, who, ten months before, 
had fallen victims to Dingaan's treachery, bnt 
whose deaths they were then in fact avenging. 
Many of the straps or " rheims " by which they 
had been dragged to this place of slaughter, were 
still found adhering t(f the bones of the legs 
and arms by which they had been drawn thither. 
The skulls were frightfully broken, exhibiting 
marks of the " knob-Jcerries" and stones with 
which they had been fractured, and, singular to 
relate, the skeleton of their ill-fated leader, 
Eetief, was recognized by a leathern pouch or 
Bandalier, which he had suspended from his 
shoulders, and in which he had deposited the 
deed or writing, formerly ceding this territory 
to the emigrant farmers, as written out by the 
Eev. Mr. Owen, on the day previous to his 
massacre, and signed with the mark of Dingaan, 
