Note 13 — I.

Consisting of one officer, one sergeant and thirty-three rank and file of the Natal Carbineers (with forty rounds of ammunition per man), and twenty-five mounted Basutos; of the latter, seventeen had various kinds of guns (with about three charges apiece); the other eight were armed only with assegais.—A Soldier's Life and Work in South Africa, edited by Lt. Col. E. Durnford, London, 1882, p. 32.