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9 1ST ARGYLLSHIRE HIGHLANDERS. 155effective, as several Kaffirs were seen to fall from 1846.their horses and were afterwards picked up bythe others and carried off, the bodyof Kaffirsretired up the hill out of range ;and immediately,as I anticipated, a largeforce of Kaffirs on footmade a rush from the top and from each side ofthe wooded hill, about 800 yards in rear of thebuilding, and made directly for it. Bythis timeI had the gun brought to the other flank, so asto fire on the hill, and opened a fire of musketryfrom the top windows and roof on them as theyadvanced, which checked them and made themchangetheir directionto the thick bush on ourright rear. The gun was then brought to bearon this point, when theKaffirs retired in variousdirections behind the hill to our rear. It isimpossible to say what mayhave been the lossof the enemy on this occasion, but on that partof the hill where the gun and musketryfire weredirected, there were distinctly seen eight bodiescarried away. Our casualty was one man of thecattle-guard severely and dangerously wounded.Whilst these operations were going on, anotherlarge body of Kaffirs, both mounted and on foot,carried off the whole of the slaughtered cattleand sheep. This party kept along the ridge to