What I Saw in Kaffir-landW. Blackwood and sons, 1880 - 211 páginas |
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... command of new company of Fingoes - I assert my right over prison- ers - Johnny Fingo — A skirmish - Savage indifference to physical pain - Night fighting - Treachery , ix 63 CHAPTER VIII . Formidable attack on Water - kloof - The ...
... command of new company of Fingoes - I assert my right over prison- ers - Johnny Fingo — A skirmish - Savage indifference to physical pain - Night fighting - Treachery , ix 63 CHAPTER VIII . Formidable attack on Water - kloof - The ...
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... command ; but I used to shut my eyes as closely as possible in accepting the proffered services of some of my recruits , and unless something too glaring forced itself on my attention - such as a man with one arm , a wooden leg , or ...
... command ; but I used to shut my eyes as closely as possible in accepting the proffered services of some of my recruits , and unless something too glaring forced itself on my attention - such as a man with one arm , a wooden leg , or ...
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... command as colonel , it was ( by a strange coincidence ) one of those regi- ments that formed the brigade of cavalry which I afterwards commanded on the Danube . was a curiously - officered regiment . I , the col- onel , had been named ...
... command as colonel , it was ( by a strange coincidence ) one of those regi- ments that formed the brigade of cavalry which I afterwards commanded on the Danube . was a curiously - officered regiment . I , the col- onel , had been named ...
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... command , two of my orderlies - Mourad and Mahamet - Chousch- took him by the " scruff " of the neck , before the whole of his staff , and pitched him off the pier into the sea , after his screaming women . Not a man stirred an inch to ...
... command , two of my orderlies - Mourad and Mahamet - Chousch- took him by the " scruff " of the neck , before the whole of his staff , and pitched him off the pier into the sea , after his screaming women . Not a man stirred an inch to ...
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... command of that party , seeing the discomfiture of his men , had had the discretion to lead them back to Cape Town , and was showing the way as fast as his portly person , under the sweltering heat of the sun and the battle combined ...
... command of that party , seeing the discomfiture of his men , had had the discretion to lead them back to Cape Town , and was showing the way as fast as his portly person , under the sweltering heat of the sun and the battle combined ...
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