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196 HISTORICAL RECORDS OP THE1852.buoyancy of the life-belt broughthim to thesurface.*On January the 26th Lieutenants Rae andMackenzie, three sergeants, and seventy menjoined a patrol under Major Kyle, 45th Regiment,at Tamacha, and destroyed the whole of thecrops in Seyola's country,had several skirmisheswith the enemy, proceeded from thence to KingWilliam's Town, where they arrived on the 24thof February, and from thence returned to FortPeddie.On the 10th of March a force consisting oftwo guns, four companies of the 74th Highlanders,375 of all ranks of the 91st Highlanders, underMajor Forbes, with the following officers :CaptainMiddlemore, Lieutenants Mainwaring, Borthwick,Pickwick, and Crampton, Ensign Bond, Lieutenantarid Adjutant W. Gordon, and Quarter-Master Paterson; 150 Cape Mounted Rifles, and200 Fingoes and burghers, was again engaged inthe Waterkloof in a combined movement, inwhich ten men of the 91st were wounded, twoof whom died of their wounds.* In the" History of the Scottish Regiments, 1862," thereis a pictureof the wreck of the Birkenhead, illustrating thetransferring of the women and children from the shipsmall boats.to the