An item dated London,
England the 18th reported that the 1st battalion of the
brigade sharpshooters now in garrison at Dover, England was unexpectedly
ordered to be shipped with the steam frigate Megaera towards Cape of Good
Hope.(1) This battalion returned just a year ago from this colony but was
forced to go back while apparently this were the only sharpshooters available
in England and familiar by the way of warfare by the native tribes there.
Note
1. Screw steam frigate, iron-built, launched at Fairbairn, Millwall, England
on 22 May 1849, troopship since 1855, beached on St. Pauls Island, Indian Ocean
as being unseaworthy on 16 June 1871, dimensions 207 x 31½, and a 1391 tons
builders measurement.
