Two days after the arrival at Fomana the remaining members of the German mission, two males, a female, and two children, were sent in by the king with a letter containing many assurances of his desire for peace, but making no mention of the stipulations which Sir Garnet Wolseley had laid down.

The advance was therefore to continue.

The rest of the troops came up, and on the 25th Russell's regiment advanced to Dompiassee, Wood's regiment and Rait's battery joining him the next day.

That afternoon the first blood north of the Prah was shed.

It being known that a body of the enemy were collecting at a village a little off the road the force moved against them.