While on this farm I set free the Kaffirs whom I had taken prisoner at Dewetsdorp; they pretended they had not been fighting, but were only waggon-drivers.

I gave them a pass to go into Basutoland.
We then proceeded towards Karmel, and just as we were approaching the farm of "Good Hope," we caught sight of an English column which had come from Bethulie, and was making for Smithfield.

I at once opened fire upon them from two sides, but they were in such good positions that we failed that day to drive them out.

On the morrow, early in the morning, the fight began afresh.
About four o'clock in the afternoon General Charles Knox, with a large reinforcement, arrived from Smithfield, and we had once more to retire.
It was here that I sustained a loss upon my staff--my nephew, Johannes Jacobus de Wet.

It was sad to think that I should never again see Johannes--so brave and cheerful as he had always been.