"Gallantly thus falling in the service of his Queen and country will perpetuate the memory of Lieut.-Col. Fordyce. "The service has also to regret the loss of Lieutenant Carey, 74th Highlanders, a rising and promising officer. (Signed) "A. J. CLOETE, Lieutenant-Colonel, "Deputy Quartermaster-General." The day following was Sunday, and a small party of us having got leave set off on horseback to attend divine service at Fort Beaufort, this being the first time that any of us had had an opportunity of going to a church since landing in the country. Our dress excited no other emotion than respect among the well-dressed congregation, though our weather-stained and soiled uniform, patched with leather and every kind of cloth, and our worn-out boots burnt to a reddish brown, looked strangely out of place. As we once more heard the service read and chanted, a host of thoughts came crowding on my mind of home, and bygone days and scenes, with a feeling of thankfulness at having been preserved through so many dangers. [Illustration: THE GRAVES AT POST RETIEF.] CHAPTER VIII. CATTLE LIFTING--KAFFIR AND FINGO CUSTOMS, ETC. Nov. 18th.--Between ten and eleven in the forenoon, parade and drill having been got over as usual in the early morning, the camp, in shirt sleeves, was hushed in its first siesta; we were all lying, like so many cucumbers under frames, in our sultry tents, which, in spite of wet blankets and "raised walls," were but a degree more bearable than the scorching summer sun outside, when distant shots were suddenly heard, and an alarm was given of an attack on the cattle out grazing at the foot of the hills, about a mile from the sentries. In an instant all were astir, a party of Cape Corps were in the saddle, and followed by a yelling posse of naked Fingoes on bare-backed horses, thundered past us as we stood outside the lines, telescope in hand.