The sand storm at last blown over, we saw in the evening a dense smoke rising about two miles off. A reconnoitring party discovered that the enemy had set fire to the grass, a common expedient with them to oblige us to abandon a position inconvenient to themselves, by destroying the pasturage, and a mode of ejectment so effective, as generally to have no remedy but to trek.
As night advanced, the spectacle was really grand, and all turned out of their tents to look at it; the whole plain, for miles in extent, being one sheet of flame, tinging the sky with a lurid red.
FOOTNOTES:
[8] Holcus Caffrorum.
[9] Chiefs and councillors.
[10] Come on—come on, you Kaffirs!—
We will kill you—we will kill you!
[11] Taxus elongatus.
[12] Tecoma Capensis.