. La storia delle battaglie e delle avventure degli inglesi, dei Boers, e dello Zulus, ecc. in Africa del Sud, dal tempo del faraone Necho, a 1888 . bassa. All'occasione della sua morte aveva perseguito un grande corpo di Kafirswho che era uscito dal Bush Umdezene. Egli si allea nei Monti Amatolo fino ai KeiskamaHoek. Il nemico, vedendo la piccolezza del partito,• lo decodificò fino a questo punto, e poi cadde su di lui, e egli si ritirò dal combattimento proprio per la via che eravamo venuti. Ha perso due dei suoi uomini, ma quando è arrivato al flusso dove è stato ucciso è stato incontrato e circondato

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. The history of the battles and adventures of the British, the Boers, and the Zulus, etc. in Southern Africa, from the time of Pharaoh Necho, to 1888 . low. On the occasionof his death he had been pursuing a large body of Kafirswho had passed out of the Umdezene Bush. He followedthem into the Amatolo Mountains as far as the KeiskamaHoek. The enemy, seeing the smallness of the party, • decoyed him thus far, and then fell upon him, and he hadto retire fighting by the very route we had come. He hadlost two of his men, but when he arrived at the streamwhere he was killed he was met and surrounded by a freshparty of Kafirs, and overpowered in the long grass, not asingle man escaping. His men fought most bravely aslong as their ammunition lasted, and a large number ofKafirs were killed. For months no tidings could be obtained as to whathad befallen the party, but at last, it becoming known thatthe chief Makomo had got possession of Bailies Bible(which he always carried about with him), he was bribedfor a consideration to part with it ; and on the fly-leaf wasfound written a statement that he was then surrounded and, his ammunition failing.. HORRIBLE SPECTACLE 611 We searched and found the remains in a decomposedstate, Bailies being recognisable only from the long hair-and black whiskers that had fallen on each side of theskeleton. From the stream at Bailies grave the road or pathled by the base of a mountain called Taban Doda, or MensMountain. It was literally so on this day, for the mountainwas covered with a black mass of warriors, who pressed thetroops so much that the column had to diverge to the left, more into the open, and proceed over the Kometyes Flatbefore reaching Debe Neck. The four men who werecarrying me over this rough ground halted to rest, and forthe sake of shelter from the bullets, I was deposited in oneof these kometyes, or basins in the ground ; and one of themen took off his wooden canteen to drink from. No doubtI was in a high state of fever and ver

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• bookcentury1800
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