retired. De Wouters, owing to some inequalities in the ground, and confused by the smoke, led his men from the left flank across to the right flank, where he and Michaux attacked small numbers of the enemy, who had posted themselves in the forest.

I followed the main body, and found myself suddenly on the enemy's rear, posted in a belt of forest. Making a charge, I found that the only way through this belt was by a path not five feet wide. The sensation of going through this undergrowth, with the enemy all the time firing apparently from out of the ground, from the tree tops and in every direction, was not a pleasant one. I, however, got safely through the forest, and, halting my men on the other side, tried to get them into something like order. There I was re-joined by de Wouters and Michaux, who had hardly found an