CHAP. .V. 
THE DEATH OF HINTZA. 
25 
arm the points of the seven assaigais penetrated his 
coat over the right breast and slightly entered the 
skin. In self-defence Sir Harry drew a pistol and 
again closed on the chief, directing him to pull up, 
when he again attempted to stab him. Sir Harry then 
snapped the pistol at his head. Southey, William 
Southey, myself, William Shaw, old Driver, Balfour, 
A. D. C. Oliver, and many others were all in this race, 
but behind. By this time we had come to near the 
end of the tableland, and could see about 10,000 
Kafirs in a semicircle and crowning the hills in all 
directions. Hintza was making direct for his people, 
and there was no time to be lost. Sir Harry once 
more closed with the chief, and this time seized him 
by the collar of his tiger-skin robe, and slightly 
dividing the space between the two horses, hurled the 
chief headlong to the ground. Hintza was on his feet 
in an instant, and drawing one of his assaigais threw it 
after Sir Harry; but his horse had bolted from fright 
at the chief’s fall, and the assaigai fell short, but under 
the horse’s legs. Hintza was by this time at the edge 
of the tableland, and running down the steep face of 
the mountain. Sir Harry, standing in his stirrups, and 
shouting to us not to let the chief escape, as we of the 
chase arrived at the brink of the tableland, we had to 
dismount and pursue the chief on foot, the ground being 
too precipitous for horsemen to follow. I fired two shots 
