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SPORT AND WAR. 
CHAP. XVI. 
CHAPTER XVI. 
THE SURRENDER OF SANDILLI-1847. 
Towards the termination of the war the Kafirs were 
so hotly pressed by the columns of troops operating 
against them in the Amatolas that Sandilli, the para¬ 
mount chief of Kafirland, was compelled to surrender. 
I was at this time chief staff-officer to General Sir 
George Buller’s division of troops, and our camp was 
situated in the Keiskama Hoek. Patrols had been 
hunting up the Kafirs both by day and night, when all 
at once Sandilli sent in to say that if I were despatched 
to a certain spot he (having confidence in me) would 
surrender to Her Majesty’s Government. Accordingly 
at daylight the next morning I was sent to the place 
indicated, accompanied by a single orderly and an 
interpreter. This spot was at a large thorn-tree (mi¬ 
mosa), on an 6 open ’ before crossing the stream leading 
over the brow to the entrance of the Boomah Pass, 
and nearly opposite to the conical hill at the entrance 
of Oliver’s Hoek. As the sun rose I saw a body of 
mounted Kafirs approaching me at a rapid rate by the 
