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132 HISTORICAL RECORDS OP THE1846. Lieutenant King, R.A., to send a round shot atone of the masses, which killed three men. Ashell was then thrown, and a twelve-pound rocket.The latter frightened the cattle, which rusheddown towards the Kaffirs, and were easily drivenoff by them. The Fingoes pursued them, andsucceeded in re-capturing a good number of them.The enemy, as soon as theyfound our shot sowell directed, scattered, and got into the kloofsand hollows. One party of some hundreds gotdown the deep trench to Mr.Webb's house, fromwhich the detached party had been withdrawn,and began to plunderwhat little was left thereby the owner ;but a shell being pitchedinto theyard, they quitted it, but got into the ditch andgardens about it, and fired at the barracks andfort without doing any injury,several of theirnumber being shot from the infantry barrack.large bodycame down the small kloof on the leftof the Beaufort road, but were dispersed byshellsfrom the tower, shells or rockets sent at themgenerally doing damage. I take this opportunityof saying that Lieutenant King's practice, whichwas under my own observation in the Star Fort,Awas much to my satisfaction.The Kaffirs, findingthat their attack on the post had failed, except as