He therefore determined to try to make a breach, and hoped to carry the fort. At six o'clock on the morning of the 28th he commenced. Having nothing in particular to do, I climbed to the top of a mountain which commanded a view of the scene of operations, and was in the tantalising position of seeing the fight going on, though unable to know” with what result.

After steady cannonading till nine o'clock there was very heavy musketry fire on two sides of the fort, and this ceasing led me to suppose that the fort had been carried, whereas the real state of affairs was quite different. De Wouters had only succeeded in making a breach of not more than a yard square, although he had advanced the gun to within a hundred yards of the fort. While thus engaged, Commandant Gillian had, unknown to him, attacked the main fort in