For an hour the action was warm, but at the end of that time the Boers fled, leaving a number of dead behind them.

The troops engaged in this very creditable action, which might have tried the steadiness of veterans, were four hundred of the Duke of Edinburgh's volunteers, some of Paget's horse and of the 8th Regiment Imperial Yeomanry, four Canadian guns, and twenty-five of Warren's Scouts.

Their losses were eighteen killed and thirty wounded.

Colonel Spence, of the volunteers, died at the head of his regiment.

A few days before, on May 27th, Colonel Adye had won a small engagement at Kheis, some distance to the westward, and the effect of the two actions was to put an end to open resistance.