CHAP. III. 
ENO’S. BRAVE DAUGHTER. 
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ounce or a little more, with all the 6 substance ’ and 
nutriment of a pound of meat in it. A mounted man 
may in this way carry ten days’ food with him, without 
any commissariat train, and no incumbrance to protect. 
I saw Englishmen buying pieces of biltong from the 
Dutch about the size of your thumb for haif-a-crown, 
and it made a very good meal for the day. 
After burning the kraals of the Graika chiefs the 
expedition climbed the Chumie Heights ; and at the 
Chumie post, old Fort Warden, we found a convoy of 
wagons with supplies, and Major Burney, of the 
Cape Mounted Rifles, with a strong force, which should 
have co-operated with us against the Graikas, but had 
remained stationary on account of a slight inclemency of 
weather. It is said that Major Cox expressed his opinion 
of such conduct in pretty strong terms, for had we met 
any great opposition our force was not very strong. 
What I know is, that we revelled in good living that 
night and the whole of next day. This post was situated 
in one of the most fertile valleys of the Kat River, 
and all around it were splendid vegetable gardens. 
My mess borrowed an iron pot from one of the 
wagoners, and with the rations served out, supple¬ 
mented by green-peas, beans, potatoes, cabbage, onions, 
herbs, &c. fresh from the gardens, we made such a 
‘hotch-potch’ that a spoon would almost stand up¬ 
right in. 
