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SPORT AND WAR. 
CHAP. IX. 
back on foot. Two men were shot —Boo) t Daries and 
Witbooy Klein, one at my side and the other next Lieut. 
Carey—and some few men and horses were wounded. 
We very soon drove the enemy back, and held the 
rocky ledge until we were recalled, after having been 
reinforced by Capt. O’Beily’s troop. Our holding the 
ledge enabled the infantry to carry back the wounded 
who fell after they passed over it. 
By this time General Somerset had come from the 
direction of the Chumie Hoek to our support with the 
two field-guns which accompanied his column from the 
camp at Burns Hill. These were soon got into position, 
and the enemy was shelled out of the bush and rocks 
in a very short time. 
Here again—as in all Kafir wars—the Kafirs had 
such power of dispersion that they soon disappeared 
except on the distant hills. The troops were ordered 
to re-form, the wounded men were placed on the gun- 
limbers, and the whole of the troops then marched 
down the slope to the Chumie Hoek. At the foot of 
the hill we were joined by Captain Donovan, Cape 
Mounted Bifles, Captain Pipon, who had been detached 
by General Somerset up the sources of the Chumie 
Biver, where they had captured about 2,000 head of 
cattle and a number of goats and other animals. 
Major Gibson, 7th Dragoon Guards, and the re¬ 
mainder of the troops had been left in charge of the 
