("Africa as It Is.") That ended the second battle.
On the 7th of February General Colley discovered that the Boers were flanking his position.

The next morning he left his camp at Mount Pleasant and marched out and crossed the Ingogo river with 270 men, started up the Ingogo heights, and there fought a battle which lasted from noon till nightfall.

He then retreated, leaving his wounded with his military chaplain, and in recrossing the now swollen river lost some of his men by drowning.

That was the third Boer victory.

Result, according to Mr.Russell-- British loss 150 out of 270 engaged.
Boer loss, 8 killed, 9 wounded--17.
There was a season of quiet, now, but at the end of about three weeks Sir George Colley conceived the idea of climbing, with an infantry and artillery force, the steep and rugged mountain of Amajuba in the night--a bitter hard task, but he accomplished it.