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"If they're going to be friendly, so much the better, and if it should happen to rain while we're here, they'd think we brought it, and we could have almost anything we wanted. Perhaps they have a store of ivory hidden away, Mr. Durban. Some of these tribes do." "It's possible, but the chances for rain are very small.
This communication throws a most welcome light upon the attitude of his people with respect to the momentous events that are in progress, and also it reveals to what a high standard of intellectual culture a pure Zulu may attain." "Duff's Road, Durban, November 3rd, 1899.
Feeling in Durban, with regard to the Raiders, was then running high, and for hours did a vast crowd wait at the station merely in order to give the troopers of the Chartered Forces some hearty cheers, albeit they passed at midnight in special trains without stopping.
Durban, and they took aim. There was a fusillade of reports and several of the big brutes toppled over. "Bless my toothbrush!" cried Mr. Damon, "that's the time I got one!" "Yes, and a fine specimen, too!" added Mr. Durban, who had only succeeded in downing a small bull, with an indifferent pair of tusks. "A fine specimen, Mr. Damon, I congratulate you!"
So he entertained his friends at a farewell banquet, packed his swag with 220 ounces of gold carefully secured in the middle and started on a tramp to Durban. A lot of his friends accompanied him to the Blyde River Drift, and there gave him a parting cheer. Even now I can see him sturdily walking up the hill after he had crossed the river, and pausing to wave his hat to us in farewell.
"They'd tear you to pieces in a minute!" cried the old hunter. "We must fight them from the ship." There was a curious whistling sound in the air. Mr. Durban looked up. "Duck, everybody!" he yelled. "They're firing arrows at us! Get under shelter, for they may be poisoned!" Tom and the others darted into the craft.
At Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, and Durban were other local representatives naval captains with staffs similar to those of the home ports so that, to use a phrase of the Director of Transports, the ships were "well shepherded." If the end crowns the work it may be said, although the end is not quite yet, that the work of transportation has been crowned.
Before the beginning of this story of the most remarkable episodes in his life, Philip Hadden was engaged for several years in transport-riding that is, in carrying goods on ox waggons from Durban or Maritzburg to various points in the interior.
It was his intention to advance northwards to Newcastle as soon as he was reinforced by the contingent on its way from India, the full strength of which had not arrived at Durban. The position at Dundee was strategically defective, as it was exposed to a raid from the Transvaal border only twelve miles distant, and it was actually further from the Orange Free State than Ladysmith.
The retirement of the Boer forces before Roberts, in the Free State, uncovered the flank and endangered the communications of their brethren on the other side of the mountains. At the present moment, July 26, the British have communication from Johannesburg and Pretoria to the sea-coast by two routes to Cape Town and to Durban.
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