CHAP. XVII. 
THE BOOMAH PASS. 
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1834-5; bis father was one of the British settlers of 
1820, and a friend of my father’s. When just grown 
up, and residing on the Hope Farm, in Lower Albany, 
he was called upon to act as a special constable and 
assist the law officers to seize a desperate character 
named Fletcher who had committed a serious crime 
and resisted the law. On entering his house the man 
raised a gun, and was in the act of shooting a con¬ 
stable, when Bailie put up his pistol and shot the man 
in the arm, intending only to disable him; but the 
ball glanced after breaking the arm and killed the 
man on the spot. Bailie insisted upon being tried 
by the Circuit Court Judge, who not only honourably 
acquitted him, but passed the highest encomiums on 
his conduct. 
However, it made such an impression on Bailie that 
he became a very religious man; he preached on all 
convenient occasions to general congregations as well 
as to his men, and always carried a Bible in a spare 
pouch on his person. On the occasion of his death, 
in the war of 1835, he had been pursuing a large body 
of Kafirs who had passed out of the Umdezene Bush ; 
he followed them into the Amatola Mountains as far as 
the Keiskama Hoek. The enemy, seeing the small¬ 
ness of the party, decoyed him thus far and then fell 
upon him, and he had to retire fighting by the very 
route we had come. He had lost one or two of his men; 
