SPORT AND WAR. 
CHAP. IX. 
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met our view. One of the wounded men who had 
fallen into the enemy’s hands the night before had been 
lashed to the limber of the wagon and burnt alive. A 
most ghastly grin was on the poor man’s face; his 
wrists and legs were lacerated with the thongs, and his 
body charred by the fire; his belly was ripped open by 
an assaigai, and his bowels protruded. The ammu¬ 
nition-boxes had been cut loose from the wagon and 
emptied of their contents, but the wagon itself was 
burnt to the axles, and the shot and shell were still hot. 
A portion of the camp had already moved off before 
I returned, and I was told off with my squadron to 
form a rear-guard. As the leading wagons moved 
from the camp the two great masses of the enemy 
poured down from the mountains and extended along 
the whole line of route ; and as the wagons approached 
the bushy country towards Block Drift the whole line 
was simultaneously attacked in front, centre, and rear; 
but the guns being brought into action, the enemy 
were driven back with considerable loss. Colonel 
Richardson commanded the centre and rear of the 
wagons; and the 7th Dragoon Gruards had several 
times to charge the enemy. 
Just as I was moving from the camp-ground with 
the rear-guard I saw a splendid fellow of my regiment, 
Corporal Telemacus, and one man come galloping in 
from the direction of the affair of the day before. 
