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SPORT AND WAR. 
CHAP. Y. 
at the chief, but he gained the bush at the bottom of 
the hill and disappeared. William Southey, Driver, 
Balfour, and myself were the first to arrive on the spot, 
and Southey and Balfour entered the bush above, and 
Driver and myself below, where the chief had disap¬ 
peared, in order to work towards each other. Southey 
was the first to come upon Hintza (he was half in the 
water), a river running through the bush under a shelv¬ 
ing rock ; he had an assaigai drawn and poised, and was 
in the act of throwing or jerking it at Southey, when 
he put up his gun and blew the chief’s brains out. I was 
the first to reach the dead chief. The ball had entered 
the forehead and completely smashed the skull. I 
took his assaigai s and the charm from around his neck, 
and left immediately to carry the news to Sir Harry 
Smith, who, though he did not wish the chief to 
escape, regretted that he had been killed. It was not 
until I returned to my horse that I discovered I had 
lost a pair of valuable pistols from my belt while 
running down the steep hill. I was sorry for this,, as 
they were 4 prize ’ pistols, captured by my father during 
the old war with France, were inlaid with gold, and 
were said to have belonged to Napoleon. The mass 
of Kafirs collected in the neighbourhood soon dis¬ 
covered that their chief had been killed, and they 
dispersed after very little fighting. I received my first 
commission as an officer on that, day—May 18, 1835— 
