Wounded severely--Brigadier-General Wodehouse.
" slightly--Veterinary-Captain Mann.
BRITISH SOLDIERS.
Killed. Wounded.
Queen's Regiment . . . 1 3
NATIVE RANKS--Wounded, 20.
FOLLOWERS-- " 6.
Total, 32 of all ranks.
The casualties among the cavalry horses and transport animals were most
severe. Over 120 were killed and wounded.
The enemy drew off, carrying their dead with them, for the most part,
but numerous bodies lying outside the shelter trench attested the valour
and vigour of their attack. One man was found the next morning, whose
head had been half blown off, by a discharge of case shot from one of
the mountain guns. He lay within a yard of the muzzle, the muzzle he had
believed would be stopped, a victim to that blind credulity and
fanaticism, now happily passing away from the earth, under the combined
influences of Rationalism and machine guns.
It was of course very difficult to obtain any accurate estimate of the
enemy's losses.
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