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SPORT AND WAR. 
CHAP. X. 
CHAPTER X. 
THE AFFAIR IN THE COWIE BUSH. 
The troops, after the first three days’ fighting near 
Burns Hill and the Amatola, marched to Block Drift, 
(afterwards Fort Hare); and the Kafirs, having passed 
into the colony, were committing great ravages and 
depredations in Lower Albany; so much so, that the 
greater part of the troops had to march back via 
Grraham’s Town and follow up the enemy into Lower 
Albany. The camp was formed at McClucky’s Farm, 
near Woodlands ; and there had been several patrols 
to Lombard’s Post, Dells Place, at Barville Park, 
Theopolis, Fairfax, and to the Cowie Mouth. On each 
of these occasions there were little £ scrimmages ’ with 
the Kafirs; but as one of the patrols were returning 
towards camp, about daylight in the morning, we heard 
firing in the direction of the camp; and as only a few 
men had been left to take care of the baggage-wagons, 
&c., we proceeded at a rapid rate in the direction of 
the firing. This came from a wooded ravine which 
joined the Cowie Forest, not far from the camp, and 
