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9 1ST AEGYLLSHIRE HIGHLANDERS. Ill" The approbationof the public which must 1842.have been given to this remarkable instance ofgood conduct in all, and of the beneficial effectsresulting from it,would have been satisfactoryto the feelings of all, and of their friends. As itis, I will take an early opportunity of layingbefore her Majesty this most interesting narrative,and I will not fail, as opportunities offer,to draw herMajesty's gracious attention to thosewhose conduct is the subjectof it."Assistant-Surgeon Stubbs, who was in medicalcharge, states, in a letter subsequently written,that the exact number of the troops on boardthe ship when she stranded wasReserve Battalion 91st ... ... 450 men.Detachment of the 27th 31Cape Mounted Rifles ... ... ... 11Women ... ... ... ... ... 43Children 63The convict ship Waterloo, which wentaground soon after the Abercrombie Robinson,had on board 219 convicts, under a guard ofabout thirty men of the99th Eegiment, makingwith the crew about 300 souls on board ;of these143 convicts and fifteen soldiers were drowned.In consequence of this disaster the reservebattalion remained stationed at Cape Town until