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9 1ST ARGYLLSHIRE HIGHLANDERS. 201irregulars from Blinkwater were to move upthe 1352.Fuller's Hoek Kidge ;other troops were judiciouslyposted all round the central positions ofthe enemy. The dispositions having been completed,the several columns moved upon thefastnesses they were to clear, at daylighton the15th.An order, issued by General Cathcart, says :" The operations of that and the following daywere conducted with unabated ardour and greatjudgment by the officers in command. The troopsbivouacked each night on the groundof theiroperations, and pursued on the following day, withan alacrity which cannot be too highly commended,the arduous task of searching for andclearing the forests and krantzes of the enemy.These appeared to be panic-stricken, offering littleresistance, but endeavouring to conceal themselvesin the caverns and crevices of the wooded hills,where many of them were killed. The result ofthe three days' operations have been the evacuationof the Waterkloof and other fastnesses bythe Tambookie chief, Quashe, and the Gaika chief,Macomo and his adherents, and the expulsion anddestruction of the Hottentot marauders."Among those especially mentioned by the