: What I Saw in Kaffir-Land by Lakeman Stephen - South Africa History Frontier Wars 1811-1878

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Land at St Vincent--Shooting excursion on the island--Strange dream--Narrowly escape shipwreck--Arrive at Sierra Leone--Interview with the Governor--Official ceremonies--Visit the Bishop--Official insignia--St Helena--Neglected state of the house where Napoleon died, 6

Arrive at the Cape--Valuable assistance from local authorities--A corps of volunteers formed--General Sir Harry Smith's difficulties--Damaged state of stores and ammunition--Obliged to invent a Minie ball--Happy Jack--The composition of the corps--Reflections--Colonel Neville Chamberlain--His present of a sword and its subsequent history in Turkey, 14

First attempts at discipline in corps--Prepare to start for the front--Difficulty of getting men on board ship--Review and sham fight--First feats of arms--Embarkation--Arrive at Fort Elizabeth--Onward march towards Graham's Town--First encampment in the Bush--Mutiny and punishment--Further advance--Panic and flight, 25

The Dutch and English settlers--First trial of the Minie at the Cape--I part with Happy Jack--March into Graham's Town--The officers of the corps--Colonel Clo?te--Shortcomings of the service--The commissariat--Ordered to Fort Beaufort--Arrive at headquarters, 43

My report to General commanding on state of the road--Offend the staff, but receive present of charger from General--Surprised at close proximity of Kaffirs--Offer to take nearer view--Am snubbed in consequence--Assigned post of advanced-guard in general attack under General Napier--Ascent of the Water-kloof--Ordered to dislodge Kaffirs from Horse-shoe line of Bush--In action-- Hesitation--Success--Second attack under artillery-fire--The Minie rifle again--Kaffir devotion--Their nature, and how to fight them--Am thanked in general orders, 51

Another combined attack--Small results--Capture of Mundell's Peak--Thanked a second time in general orders--Example of tenacity of life--Building forts--The descent into the Water-kloof--Reproaches--Disregarded advice--An attack and the consequences--In danger and unable to procure assistance--Relieved from all interference by other commanding officers--Receive written thanks of General commanding--Receive additional command of new company of Fingoes--I assert my right over prisoners--Johnny Fingo--A skirmish--Savage indifference to physical pain--Night fighting--Treachery, 63

Formidable attack on Water-kloof--The "Blacksmith's Shop"--Slightly wounded over the eyebrow--Dictate report to Colonel Clo?te in presence of General--I am omitted in general orders--Proceed to Graham's Town to request revision of the order--Interview with General Cathcart--Receive general order to myself--Offers of grants of land for the men who wished to settle--Remove to Blakeway's Farm, 79

Kaffir characteristics--The cruelties of war--No real sympathy between black and white--Kaffir cruelties--Night attack on a Kaffir village--Wounded prisoner--"Doctor" Dix--Kaffirs become rare--Capture of Noziah, Sandilli's sister--Suspicious death of her attendant--Sergeant Herridge, 91

Noziah at Blakeway's Farm--Becomes a favourite with the men--Wishes to reconcile me to her brother Sandilli--Expedition sent out to find Sandilli and arrange for an interview--Return after twenty-three days' absence go with Noziah to meet her brother--Sandilli's war-council--Angry reception--I obtain a hearing--Sandilli's reply--Offers to meet General Cathcart and make an explanation to him--Demoralising effect of exposing life in fighting, 107

Return of General Cathcart from Basutoland--End of the war--Sporting adventures--Loving tortoises--Evening reveries--A sudden attack from an unknown enemy--Plans for his capture--Unsuccessful--Another attempt--Night vigils--Close quarters--Death of the leopard--Wild-boar hunting--Baboons--My pack of hounds--They are attacked by baboons--Poor Dash's fate--Snakes, 118

Kaffir knowledge of surgery--Manners more artificial than natural--Peace concluded with Sandilli and Macomo--Indifferent character of the treaty of peace--The corps disbanded--Thanks of Commander-in-chief--Return towards the Cape--Addresses from the inhabitants of Fort Beaufort and Graham's Town--Engineering tastes--Sam Rowe--The Mary Jane--I embark for Cape Town, 140

Arrival at the Cape--Opinions on the war there--The conversion of the heathen--Baptism of a recent convert--Converted Jews in Bucharest--The Metropolitan of the Greek Church and an English bishop--The voyage home--The Arethusa--Noziah visits Cape Town to bid me good-bye--African trophies--Reflections on the actual state of the Cape, 155

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