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SPORT AND WAR. 
CHAP. XII. 
It was a grand sight, and the general gave the word 
to the 7th Dragoon Guards, who were in advance of the 
guns, to open out and allow the guns to trot through the 
space, come into action and fire two rounds; the 7th 
Dragoon Guards forming line on each flank of the guns 
and charging; the Cape Mounted Bifles forming line in 
extended order and charging in succession to the 7th 
Dragoon Guards. 
The shot - and shell did good execution, and the 
charge was the prettiest thing I have ever seen in real 
fighting. You might have placed a long table-cloth over 
each troop, they kept in such compact order; and the 
Cape Mounted Bifles went through the broken mass of 
Kafirs in one long line. But by this time the enemy 
had turned, broken and fled back over the open country 
in the direction of the Keiskama Biver. I could not 
resist the charge and passed through with the front, 
but could not hold my runaway horse, and therefore 
could not use my sword. The cavalry wheeled and 
came back re-charging the enemy, and when I did 
pull up I halted, and dismounted a bugler of my 
regiment, taking his horse and giving him mine; and 
after this we plunged pell-mell into the routed column 
of Kafirs. 
It was strange how few Kafirs were killed in this 
charge. Though there was a clean sweep through them 
the width of each troop, and you saw them tumbling 
