About one o'clock
Here he made a grave blunder . If he had tried the Berg by one of the faces he might have got on to the plateau and been at Inanda 's Kraal by the dawning . But he over-estimated the size of the commandoes , and held on to the north , where he thought there would be no defence . About one o'clock Arcoll , tired of inaction and conscious that he had misread Laputa 's tactics , resolved on a bold stroke . He sent half his police to the Berg to reinforce the commandoes , bidding them get into touch with the post at Blaauwildebeestefontein . A little after two o'clock a diversion occurred . Henriques succeeded in crossing the road three miles east of Main Drift .