In this well-managed affair the enemy lost at least a hundred, of whom fifty were prisoners.

On Friday, February 23rd, another attempt at rescue was made from the south, but again it ended disastrously for the Boers.

A party attacked a kopje held by the Yorkshire regiment and were blown back by a volley, upon which they made for a second kopje, where the Buffs gave them an even rougher reception.

Eighty prisoners were marched in.

Meantime hardly a night passed that some of the Boers did not escape from their laager and give themselves up to our pickets.