Yet the operations showed a new mobility in the British columns, which shed their guns and their baggage in order to travel faster.

The main commando escaped, but twenty-five laggards were taken.

The action took place among the hills thirty miles to the west of Graaf-Reinet.
On July 21st Crabbe and Kritzinger had a skirmish in the mountains near Cradock, in which the Boers were strong enough to hold their own; but on the same date near Murraysburg, Lukin, the gallant colonial gunner, with ninety men rode into 150 of Lategan's band and captured ten of them, with a hundred horses.

On July 27th a small party of twenty-one Imperial Yeomanry was captured, after a gallant resistance, by a large force of Boers at the Doorn River on the other side of the Colony.

The Kaffir scouts of the British were shot dead in cold blood by their captors after the action.