An officer with several men of the Leicesters, and some of our few remaining cavalry, were bit.

The position was clearly impossible, so at two in the morning of the 22nd the whole force was moved to a point to the south of the town of Dundee.

On the same day a reconnaissance was made in the direction of Glencoe Station, but the passes were found to be strongly occupied, and the little army marched back again to its original position.

The command had fallen to Colonel Yule, who justly considered that his men were dangerously and uselessly exposed, and that his correct strategy was to fall back, if it were still possible, and join the main body at Ladysmith, even at the cost of abandoning the two hundred sick and wounded who lay with General Symons in the hospital at Dundee.

It was a painful necessity, but no one who studies the situation can have any doubt of its wisdom.