OUR MARCH INTO THE DESERT We had killed nine elephants, and it took us two days to cut out the tusks, and having brought them into camp, to bury them carefully in the sand under a large tree, which ma
OUR MARCH INTO THE DESERT We had killed nine elephants, and it took us two days to cut out the tusks, and having brought them into camp, to bury them carefully in the sand under a large tree, which ma
FOUND And now I come to perhaps the strangest adventure that happened to us in all this strange business, and one which…
IGNOSI’S FAREWELL Ten days from that eventful morning found us once more in our old quarters at Loo; and, strange to sa…
WE ABANDON HOPE I can give no adequate description of the horrors of the night which followed. Mercifully they were to …
SOLOMON’S TREASURE CHAMBER While we were engaged in recovering from our fright, and in examining the grisly wonders of …
THE PLACE OF DEATH It was already dark on the third day after the scene described in the previous chapter when we campe…
GOOD FALLS SICK After the fight was ended, Sir Henry and Good were carried into Twala’s hut, where I joined them. They …
THE LAST STAND OF THE GREYS In a few more minutes the regiments destined to carry out the flanking movements had trampe…
THE ATTACK Slowly, and without the slightest appearance of haste or excitement, the three columns crept on. When within…
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