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SPORT AND WAR. 
CHAP. IX. 
Hoek. I liad the formation of this camp, which formed 
a square of 120 yards each way, the men lying on 
their arms and facing outwards, the horses being linked 
in rear, and the cattle and goats in the centre. 
Sentries had to be posted between the horses and 
the cattle, and vedettes at a short distance outside the 
square. The camp was twice attacked on one side 
during the night; and after the vedettes ran in, that 
side only returned the fire of the enemy, although in 
the dark of night, the other faces of the square merely 
standing to their arms. This showed great steadiness 
on the part of the soldiers. 
The next day was a most memorable one in the 
annals of Cape warfare. As the camp began to move 
from Burns Hill, with its long train of bullock-wagons, 
over one hundred and twenty in number, besides 
Boyal Artillery guns, limbers, and ammunition-wagons, 
thousands upon thousands of the enemy were seen 
pouring down from the mountains in all directions. 
The road, a mere wagon-track, ran for the first two 
miles along the bank of the Keiskama River ; the river, 
then turning suddenly to the right, ran round a 
peninsula of high ground, upon which old Fort Cox, of 
the Province of Queen Adelaide day, was afterwards 
rebuilt. At the base of this peninsula, which the road 
crossed before descending to cross the Keiskama River, 
the wagon-road ascended a stony, precipitous, and 
