What I Saw in Kaffir-landW. Blackwood and sons, 1880 - 211 páginas |
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... England I did all I could to enforce on the military authorities the advantages of this new weapon . The Duke of Wellington gave me to under- stand , in several interviews he honoured me with , that he was perfectly satisfied as to the ...
... England I did all I could to enforce on the military authorities the advantages of this new weapon . The Duke of Wellington gave me to under- stand , in several interviews he honoured me with , that he was perfectly satisfied as to the ...
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... England . need not say , that having no staff to aid me in enlisting , and no barracks to put the men . in , the task was impossible . It was finally agreed that I was to engage the men at the Cape , and clothe them , the Government ...
... England . need not say , that having no staff to aid me in enlisting , and no barracks to put the men . in , the task was impossible . It was finally agreed that I was to engage the men at the Cape , and clothe them , the Government ...
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... England , until I began to fear , from the accounts of slaughter sent home , that there would not be a Kaffir left to try my guns upon . However , as I knew from experi- ence that despatches intended for a public a long way off were apt ...
... England , until I began to fear , from the accounts of slaughter sent home , that there would not be a Kaffir left to try my guns upon . However , as I knew from experi- ence that despatches intended for a public a long way off were apt ...
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... The contrast was too great . There was something that clashed harshly somewhere , and I could not help think- ing that posterity would lay this woful wreck to England's charge . 14 CHAPTER III . ARRIVE AT THE CAPE - VALUABLE.
... The contrast was too great . There was something that clashed harshly somewhere , and I could not help think- ing that posterity would lay this woful wreck to England's charge . 14 CHAPTER III . ARRIVE AT THE CAPE - VALUABLE.
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... England in the follow- ing spring , I was asked , on passing through Graham's Town , to go and visit a man then lying in the hospital there , and who had formerly belonged to my corps . I accord- ingly went , and found the man to be ...
... England in the follow- ing spring , I was asked , on passing through Graham's Town , to go and visit a man then lying in the hospital there , and who had formerly belonged to my corps . I accord- ingly went , and found the man to be ...
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