Note 216 — Chapter IX

Letter of January 17, 1875. For the account of the affair at Berea, I am indebted to Major-General the Hon. Leicester Smyth, with some information gathered from Captain W. R. King’s ‘Campaigning in Kaffir-Land,’ and from the ‘Correspondence of Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir George Cathcart, K.C.B.,’ published (after his death) in 1856. And a remarkable letter of Sir William Eyre which appeared in the ‘Morning Herald’ of October 23, 1856 (to which my attention was kindly drawn by General Smyth), commenting on some statements in the ‘Cathcart Correspondence’ as to the action at Berea, has also afforded me important information.