------------------------------------------------------------------------ Note 1. Sir Harry Smith's precise words I believe, on good authority, were, "As for you, Pato, you are a vagabond; and, instead of being taken out of the bush, you deserve to be shot." Note 2. Soon after the meeting at King William's Town Umtikaka died. There is some reason to believe he was poisoned. It will be remembered that he wished to assist us against Mapassa in the early part of the war. Note 3. "I am no longer a man, but a baboon," said Pato to Colonel Somerset, when the latter took the hunted chief "out of the rocks." Note 4. Macomo was then in gaol there for making a disturbance in the street, when intoxicated. Note 5. Kreli had sent a messenger to the meeting, excusing himself for not attending, on the score of "being sick;" but on the 25th of January he presented himself at King William's Town, attended by forty mounted followers, to remonstrate on the subject of the new boundary line between his country and the Tambookies. Note 6. In my original journal, when speaking of the organisation of this body by Lieutenant Davis, late of the 90th Regiment, I remarked: "This experiment of arming so treacherous a race seems fraught with danger." My misgivings have been amply justified. APPENDIX. DEATHS OF FIVE BRITISH OFFICERS AT THE KEI. I copy from a Colonial newspaper (the "Graham's Town Journal") the following account of the military honours recently paid to the remains of the gallant sufferers:-- "King William's Town, 7th September 1850. "The inhabitants of King William's Town have been lately very sensibly reminded of one of the most tragical and melancholy events of the late Kaffir War, by a pleasing and gratifying exhibition of that mutual feeling of good will and companionship, which so eminently distinguishes the gentlemen of the military profession. It is now three years since the occurrence of the events alluded to, but that time seems to have had but little influence in obliterating from the soldier's mind the remembrance of those who fell in the late strife, whether when in actual contact with the enemy, or slain in cold blood by the merciless cruelty of a barbarous foe. The incidents of the affair spoken of, are no doubt still fresh in the recollection of most of the inhabitants of the Colony, yet it may be neither uninteresting nor unedifying, shortly to repeat them, tending as they do, in some measure, to illustrate the native character of the Kaffir.