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62 History of the Cape Colony. [1877 occasion they were less persevering, for on the Fingos under Allan Maclean, supported by sixty of the mounted police, advancing to rheet them, they turned and fled. They were pursued for half an hour, and several were killed. A little later reinforcements of police and volunteers from different parts of the colony began to arrive, and before the end of the first week in October Colonel Griffith found himself in command of five hundred and eighty mounted policemen, six hundred and twenty volun- teer cavalry, and three hundred and seventy volunteer infantry. On the 3rd of October Major Elliot arrived with a Tembu contingent, and a large Fingo force under Mr. James Ayliff was also in the field. In August 1877 Major Henry G. Elliot succeeded Mr. "Wright as chief magistrate of Tembuland Proper, and when war with the Galekas commenced, he called upon the people under his charge to take up arms for the government. In the district of Mqanduli the magistrate, Mr. Scott, succeeded in raising a force of some strength, but in the other districts there was no response to the call. Not a single individual of any clan under Dalasil^ came forward to aid the government. Stokwe, son of Tshaii, who resided in Maxongo's Hoek at the base of the Drakensberg, joined the enemy. He was the head of a small alien clan called the Amavundle, and had not many fighting men, so that his defection was a matter of little importance. All the rest of the tribe waited for the word of Gangelizwe. Fortunately that chief had sufficient sagacity to see that an opportunity had occurred for him to secure the favour of the govern- ment. He declared himself a loyal subject of the queen, and took the field with Major Elhot. At once, as if by / magic, the attitude of the people changed. From all sides they came in to join their chief, and thereafter rendered valuable assistance. Dalasile was fined a hundred head of cattle for not complying with the