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in the middle of this, one passing through the doorway and killing four men. 
One of the shells that burst in Mlozi’s house, wounded Mlozi in the head 
and killed one of his followers. The rumoui went about that Mlozi was dead 
and a furious sortie took place—a sortie which elicited from us no pity because 
it was almost as much an impetuous attack on our own positions. The bullets 
simply whistled through the air, and it was marvellous that we did not meet 
with more casualties; but our soldiers fought splendidly, and strange to say 
the timid YVankonde also came to the front and between two and three hundred 
of Mlozi’s men were shot or speared ; amongst them fell four Arabs, one of 
them alleged to be Kopakopa, though it would afterwards seem he was 
Kopakopa of Tanganyika, and not the man who had built the stockade 
A CORNER OF MLOZl’S STOCKADE 
near Karonga. The latter is said to have been severely wounded but 
is still living in the Senga country. Our attempts to repulse the sortie 
brought the Sikhs close up to the walls, and somehow or other with or without 
command from their officers they scaled the ramparts and stood on the roof. 
Lieuts. de Herries Smith and Coape-Smith were dragged up on to the roof 
of the stockade by the first Sikhs who had got there, and the first man to 
jump down into the stockade was Lieut, de Herries Smith, who immediately 
fell, shot through the right arm. Lieut. Coape-Smith and Mr. Gordon Gumming 
followed Herries Smith, lifted him up and carried him out of the Arab fire. 
Majors Edwards and Bradshaw had by this time arrived from Karonga, and 
together with Commander Cullen, Dr. Poole and myself and the other officers 
made for the stockade. Lieut. Alston and Major Trollope had joined the party 
under Coape - Smith. Edwards and Bradshaw scrambled over the walls. 
Commander Cullen made a breach through the doorway with axes, and he 
