[135] Later, General Woodgate, mortally wounded at Spion Kop, in the Boer War.
[136] Major-General Sir George Colley, killed in action 1881.
[137] Field-Marshal Lord Wolseley.
[138] General Sir William Butler, G.C.B.
[139] Later he asked to remain on till November 1878, in order to complete thirty years’ service, and thus get the full pension of 20s. per diem.
[140] She was rescued by a missionary.
[141] The name given to a little post from the fact that in 1836 a Colonist of that name with 24 Hottentots had been surprised there by Gaikas, and after a brave resistance killed without one man escaping. It was not known for many months what had become of the party, in spite of a protracted search ordered by Sir Harry Smith. Eventually a belt worn by Macomo was recognised as having belonged to the deceased Hottentot leader, and later his Bible was repurchased from the Gaikas, with a pathetic note on the fly-leaf that the detachment was surrounded, their ammunition nearly exhausted, and they must soon be killed.
[142] When the German legion, enlisted towards the conclusion of the Crimean War, was about to be disbanded, all who cared to go to South Africa were sent out, to the great advantage of the Colony. They were industrious, hard-working, and successful gardeners, giving their old country names to prosperous villages, such as Wiesbaden, Hanover.
[143] I wrote to the Military Secretary of Rupert Lonsdale, in the following December: “Brave as a lion, agile as a deer, and inflexible as iron, he is the best leader of Natives I have seen.”
[144] The Colonial papers attributed Brabant’s reverse to Colonel Wood having for some reason failed to support him. Our Burghers only laughed at the local papers, but it was republished in the Times.