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Title: 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
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Moodie, D. C. F. Moodie, D. C. F. (Duncan Campbell Francis), 1838-1891
Subjects: South Africa : History.
Publisher: Cape Town : Murray
Contributing Library: UCLA Library, Preservation Department
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low. On the occasion of his death he had been pursuing a large body of Kafirs who had passed out of the Umdezene Bush. He followed them into the Amatolo Mountains as far as the Keiskama Hoek. The enemy, seeing the smallness of the party, decoyed him thus far, and then fell upon him, and he had to retire fighting by the very route we had come. He had lost two of his men, but when he arrived at the stream where he was killed he was met and surrounded by a fresh party of Kafirs, and overpowered in the long grass, not a single man escaping. His men fought most bravely as long as their ammunition lasted, and a large number of Kafirs were killed. For months no tidings could be obtained as to what had befallen the party, but at last, it becoming known that the chief Makomo had got possession of Bailies Bible (which he always carried about with him), he was bribed for a consideration to part with it; and on the fly-leaf was found written a statement that he was then surrounded and, his ammunition failing.
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HORRIBLE SPECTACLE 611 We searched and found the remains in a decomposed state, Bailies being recognisable only from the long hair-and black whiskers that had fallen on each side of the skeleton. From the stream at Bailies grave the road or path led by the base of a mountain called Taban Doda, or Mens Mountain. It was literally so on this day, for the mountain was covered with a black mass of warriors, who pressed the troops so much that the column had to diverge to the left, more into the open, and proceed over the Kometyes Flat before reaching Debe Neck. The four men who were carrying me over this rough ground halted to rest, and for the sake of shelter from the bullets, I was deposited in one of these kometyes, or basins in the ground; and one of the men took off his wooden canteen to drink from. No doubt I was in a high state of fever and verging on delirium, for I can only just remember that as he was leaning over me and drinking he let the canteen fall, and it struck me on the nose, breaking t

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