What I Saw in Kaffir-landW. Blackwood and sons, 1880 - 211 páginas |
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... direction . But my men were most anxious to prove their capacity for far harder fighting than the evanescent police force allowed them to display ; so , with loud shouts and exulting halloos , they jumped up from behind the fence which ...
... direction . But my men were most anxious to prove their capacity for far harder fighting than the evanescent police force allowed them to display ; so , with loud shouts and exulting halloos , they jumped up from behind the fence which ...
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... direction the pursuit was very slack . My men bent all their energies in scattering every ves- tige of civil authority ; they evidently began to consider themselves as one with the soldiers- in fact , it was in recounting the mishaps ...
... direction the pursuit was very slack . My men bent all their energies in scattering every ves- tige of civil authority ; they evidently began to consider themselves as one with the soldiers- in fact , it was in recounting the mishaps ...
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... direction ; so when my fellows had been sufficiently scratched and blown by making their way through the prickly under- wood , unmolested by all except their own fears A PANIC . 41 ( and the thorns ) , 40 WHAT I SAW IN KAFFIR - LAND .
... direction ; so when my fellows had been sufficiently scratched and blown by making their way through the prickly under- wood , unmolested by all except their own fears A PANIC . 41 ( and the thorns ) , 40 WHAT I SAW IN KAFFIR - LAND .
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... front . With the rest of the men I obliqued slightly to the right , with the same object of turning the rear in that direction also . I SALUTING A ROCKET . 57 We had advanced about half 56 WHAT I SAW IN KAFFIR - LAND .
... front . With the rest of the men I obliqued slightly to the right , with the same object of turning the rear in that direction also . I SALUTING A ROCKET . 57 We had advanced about half 56 WHAT I SAW IN KAFFIR - LAND .
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... direction , and that so closely that I drove the greater part of them over it ; and so that effort of theirs became fruitless . While doing this others had run forward on my right flank , which was out in the open ; but here also the ...
... direction , and that so closely that I drove the greater part of them over it ; and so that effort of theirs became fruitless . While doing this others had run forward on my right flank , which was out in the open ; but here also the ...
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