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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt:...that Almighty God would turn back the assailants in confusion; yet these hordes, baulked in their object, and either pursued, or falling back defeated, how was it likely to fare with ourselves? When I returned to the house, it was easy to read deep anxiety upon every countenance, and when one attempted to speak a word of relief, it had only the effect of making the others' anxiety the more intense, so easily was it seen, that where the lips sought to minister comfort, the heart of the speaker did not itself possess it. The forenoon was passed in painfulness; the unusual stillness on, and all around the station, only afforded us the better opportunity to hear, with the greater distinctness, each successive discharge of the " big gun." How we wished that some Ahimaaz, or even more slow of foot, Cushi, could have been descried running with tidings; but no, not an individual was to be seen, and the only sound that broke in upon our stillness was the hoarse voice of the cannon: thus the forenoon passed. We had sat down to dinner, when I looked out at the door that stood open, in the direction of Fort Hare. A drove of cattle was just in sight on the ridge, not a mile distant, which were being rapidly driven towards the station: my knife and fork dropt from my hands; we all rose from table, and drove after drove of cattle, and sheep, and goats, were driven into every hollow place and bush where they could be concealed. This told us that our hopes had been disappointed; we had demonstration that the Fingoes were spoiled, and whether the village of Alice, with the seminary and station of Lovedale, had escaped the CAPTIVE FLOCKS. 1 67 fate of the military villages, we did not know; for our friends and brethren's sake there, we felt the most pa...