Return of General Cathcart from Basutoland--End of the war--Sporting adventures--Loving tortoises--Evening reveries--A sudden attack from an unknown enemy--Plans for his capture--Unsuccessful--Another attempt--Night vigils--Close quarters--Death of the leopard--Wild-boar hunting--Baboons--My pack of hounds--They are attacked by baboons--Poor Dash’s fate--Snakes, 118 CHAPTER XII. Kaffir knowledge of surgery--Manners more artificial than natural--Peace concluded with Sandilli and Macomo--Indifferent character of the treaty of peace--The corps disbanded--Thanks of Commander-in-chief--Return towards the Cape--Addresses from the inhabitants of Fort Beaufort and Graham’s Town--Engineering tastes--Sam Rowe--The Mary Jane--I embark for Cape Town, 140 CHAPTER XIII. Arrival at the Cape--Opinions on the war there--The conversion of the heathen--Baptism of a recent convert--Converted Jews in Bucharest--The Metropolitan of the Greek Church and an English bishop--The voyage home--The Arethusa--Noziah visits Cape Town to bid me good-bye--African trophies--Reflections on the actual state of the Cape, 155 CHAPTER XIV. St Helena--Ascension--Monkeyish pranks in the “horse” latitudes--Young Ben’s fate--An Irish wake on the line--Narrow escape--The Mauritius steamship--Ocean visitors--A westerly gale--Sight the white cliffs of Brighton--Salute the native soil--A greedy mouthful--A dark impression--Direct attention of Government to neglected state of Napoleon’s late residence in St Helena--Obtain reply in 1855--Desire to obtain active military employment--Delays of the Horse Guards authorities--My reception there, 171 CHAPTER XV. Start on a mission to the East--Visit Gallipoli, and report upon it to Lord Stratford de Redcliffe--Report on the entire seaboard of the Dardanelles--Visit the Turkish army on the Danube, and report on its condition--Winter travelling in ball-room dress--Return to Constantinople--The Embassy there--The War Ministry at home--Their incapacity--Am offered a knighthood, but decline the honour--The Eastern question--The difficulty of regenerating the Turks by foreign interference--Their moral degradation--My knighthood is decided upon--Journey to Windsor--Lords Palmerston and Aberdeen--Monologues with predecessors in armour--The ceremony--Conclusion, 192 WHAT I SAW IN KAFFIR-LAND. CHAPTER I. ATTACHED TO THE FRENCH MILITARY STAFF IN ALGERIA--THE MINIE RIFLE--INTERVIEWS WITH THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND OTHERS--WAR AT THE CAPE--I OFFER MY SERVICES--RED-TAPE DIFFICULTIES--START FOR THE CAPE.