CHAPTER X.

Cape of Good Hope--First sight of--Inhabitants--Descent and other particulars--Sir Harry again--Sandicea in rebellion--War rumours--Join a Volunteer Corps--Off for frontier--East London--Army at Fort William--Join them--Gazetted Lieutenant--The Jungle--Kaffir women--73rd Regiment--Arrangements--Enter the Gaika tribe country--The huts--The kraal--43rd, 60th and 12th Lancers--General Somerset--Fort Beaufort--Colonel Fordyce shot--Buffalo Post--Capture cattle--Pursuit of Kaffirs--Sardillas' horse shot--Bridle neck bush--Time-expired men--Back to recruit--The Hottentot--East London again 145