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9 1ST ARGYLLSHIRE HIGHLANDERS. 181Peddie to escort cattle and waggons to Gentleman'sBush, and, after handing them over, returned andjoined a patrol under Lieutenant-Colonel Mitchell.The patrol on the following morning marchedtoKamnegana heights, and on arriving therelayconcealed till 9 a.m., and, afterwards descendingto reconnoitre, were nearly surrounded by theenemy. On this occasion the life of MajorWilmot, E.A., was saved by Sergeant EvanFerguson of the 91st. The patrol retired, andattackedthe enemy again on the following morning,returningto Fort Peddie on the llth. Onthe retiring of the patrol, Lieutenant Eae hada narrow escape, a musket-ball having struck astone on which he was standing.From October the 13th to the 23rd a detachmentof the 91st, consisting of 318 of all ranks,under Lieutenant-Colonel Yarboiough, accompaniedby Captain Middlemore, LieutenantsMainwaring, Pickwick, and Squirl, EnsignEicketts, and Adjutant W. Gordon and Assistant-Surgeon Barclay, was engaged with the enemyin a series of combined movements at the Waterkloof,and also on the 6th and 7th of November.On the night of the 13th, the force had encampedon one of the sprints of the Kaal Hoek Eiver,