There was no chance for us to make loopholes--the wall was too solid--so that if a burgher wanted to shoot he had to expose his whole body, while the English lay ready behind their loopholes to fire on us.

So it happened that eleven burghers were killed and seven wounded.

Among the dead was Captain Thijnsma, and among the wounded, Lieutenant H.Howell.
In the meantime we had got the waggons away, except the row which was nearest to the kraal, and which were too close to the enemy for us to be able to approach them safely.
No sooner had the English taken refuge in the kraal than the women fled with the waggons; and it is astonishing to relate that only one little boy of thirteen years was killed, and a woman and a girl slightly wounded.

One of the burghers whom the English had taken prisoner was also killed.
I have no exact figure as to the losses of the English, but judging from the number of dead and wounded lying on the battlefield, I should say that their casualties must have been about eighty.
The fight lasted from eleven till three o'clock, and then a reinforcement of cavalry, from eight hundred to one thousand men strong, appeared with some guns.

The force with which we had been engaged, numbering about two hundred men, belonged to the column which was now coming up.