16 
SPORT AND WAR. 
CHAP. IY. 
this time a volunteer in the Corps of Guides, under 
my old friend Richard Southey, now Lieutenant-Go- 
vernor of the Diamond Fields. Edward Driver was 
the particular guide on this occasion, and was himself 
wounded in the nose by an assaigai as he endeavoured 
to get round the corner. Captain Murray, 72nd 
Regiment, was wounded on the hip, and several men 
were killed and wounded. The first assaigai thrown 
wounded a man, and passed quivering into the ground 
not far from where I was standing. Walter Currie and 
myself stepped across to withdraw this assaigai, and 
as we drew it from the earth twenty spears entered the 
same spot as it came within the 6 line of vision ’ from 
some hundreds of Kafirs who were in mass, but beyond 
the Corner. 
Sir H. Smith had in the meantime detached some 
companies of native battalions to pass round the northern 
extremity of the precipice, and thus outflank the Kafirs 
holding the point; but before they could accomplish 
the distance a plucky discharged soldier from the 75th 
Regiment, named O’Toole, had got into such a posi¬ 
tion at the point that he could fire round the corner as 
fast as the men could hand loaded muskets to him ; 
and it was supposed that he was doing great execution, 
as we could see such an amount of the wooden shafts of 
assaigais, that it looked like a waving field of corn. 
We very soon heard the rattle of our own musketry 
