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SPORT AND WAR. 
CHAP. V. 
CHAPTER IV. 
Murray’s kraantz. 
Murray’s Kraantz is the most eastern point of the 
Amatola Mountains, in British Kaffraria. It forms a 
peak of almost perpendicular rock, with abrupt pre¬ 
cipices running hack from it in two directions. From 
the peak itself a ridge runs down between two branches 
of the Buffalo River. The 6 Gorges ’ of the Buffalo 
Poorts enter the mountains about three miles to the 
west of it; and Mount Kemp, the highest point in the 
range, is situated about six miles to the north-west. 
There was considerable fighting in these mountains 
in the Kafir War of 1835 ; and Murray’s Kraantz takes 
its name from the storming of that rock by a force 
under Captain Murray, of the 72nd Highlanders, who 
was wounded on the occasion. 
Sir Benjamin D’Urban was encamped, with the 
head-quarter division of troops, on the slopes below the 
mountain; and a combined force was detailed to attack 
the Kafirs in their mountain fastnesses at several points. 
A noted rebel Hottentot, named 4 Louis Arnoldus,’ was 
