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SPORT AND WAR. 
CHAP. IT. 
CHAPTER II. 
MY SECOND PATROL—1835. 
When the war broke out there were several outposts, 
or advanced military positions, on the frontier, viz. 
Kafir Drift post, on the right bank of the Fish River, 
near the sea; Fort Wiltshire, on the right bank of the 
Keiskama River, in the then so called Neutral Territory ; 
Fort Beaufort, on the Kat River; and the Chumie post, 
or Fort Warden, on the upper branches of the same 
river, on the extreme left, with one post of communi¬ 
cation in the rear of this line, called Hermane’s Kraal, 
afterwards Fort Brown. These posts did not hold 
sufficiently strong garrisons, nor were they provisioned 
as they ought to have been, and it was deemed ex¬ 
pedient to abandon them. With this view a convoy 
of some dozen wagons was despatched from Gfrabam’s 
Town, under an escort of only twelve volunteers, to Kafir 
Drift post to withdraw that detachment. I could name 
all this escort, but it is enough for my purpose to say 
that I was one of them, and we were under the com- 
