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SPORT AND WAR. 
CHAP. XVI. 
in-Chief, and was with the head-quarters of the army 
at King William’s Town ; while his Excellency Sir H. 
Pottinger, the Governor, was at Graham’s Town. After 
bringing Sandilli into camp, and after a short 4 palaver,’ 
Sir George Buller sent me in charge of the great chief 
at once to King William’s Town, which place I reached 
before eleven o’clock. His Excellency Sir George 
Berkeley was highly delighted with the surrender of 
the chief, and asked me if I were able to proceed on to 
Graham’s Town with a despatch containing a report of 
the circumstance, and requesting instructions from the 
Governor as to the disposal of the prisoner. I was 
quite prepared, and started at once with an open order 
for a relay of troop-horses from post to post en route. 
Major Hogge, 7th Dragoon Guards, accompanied me on 
this journey, and it is wonderful how his single horse 
kept up and performed the distance. We reached 
Graham’s Town a little after nine o’clock, just as Sir 
H. Pottinger had finished dinner. Sir Henry re¬ 
quested me to state when I would be ready to return 
to King William’s Town with his reply despatches. 
I replied, 6 In one hour.’ The despatch was not, however, 
ready until eleven o’clock, when I started, and was back 
at head-quarters at nine o’clock next morning, making 
a distance of over 200 miles in little more than twenty- 
four hours. But this did not terminate my ride. The 
despatch to Sir George Berkeley directed that Sandilli 
