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"You're not going to turn back now, are you?" asked Mr. Durban. "No, but I will as soon as I look the ship over. We'll come back to-morrow. And we'll have to make a day attack or it will be too late to save them. Two other white captives! I wonder who they can be." There was a big surprise in store for Tom Swift. Early the next day the airship was again afloat.
They were even urged by some of the subordinate leaders, who, as a rule, were never so venturesome as when there was no immediate prospect of meeting the enemy, to mask White and march at once upon Durban, but Joubert would only sanction a minor effort in that direction which was postponed until it was too late to be effective. The last man to leave Ladysmith was French.
The captain sent his kind regards and sent me a special offering of tea and sugar. We have given the tea to the people as they had none. The steamer was bound for Durban, and the captain, who was here the year before, said he hoped to return in a month, and if he did would bring more flour for the people. The islanders had to pay in cash.
She had heard many tales of valour in this war, and more than one hero of the Victoria Cross had been in her charge at Durban; but as a child's heart might beat faster at the first words of a wonderful story, so she felt a faint suffocation in the throat and her brooding eyes took on a brighter, a more objective look, as she heard the tale of Wortmann's Drift.
They were soon busy cutting up the elephants ready for a big feast, and runners were sent to tell neighboring tribes, in adjoining villages, of the delights awaiting them. Mr. Durban gave instructions about saving the ivory tusks, and the valuable teeth, each pair worth about $1,000, were soon cut out and put away for our friends.
Then the engine was reversed, and we withdrew out of range of the hills beyond Colenso at full speed and some said that the Boers did not fire because they hoped to draw us nearer, and others that there were no Boers within ten miles. On the way back I talked with the volunteer. He was friendly and communicative. 'Durban Light Infantry, he said; 'that's my corps.
Long before this condition of destitution and debility was reached the besiegers found their hands so occupied by the British relieving forces that the besieged had little more to do than to hold on. Hildyard's brigade, which had left England before the news of Talana Hill was received, went on at once from Cape Town without disembarking, reaching Durban before November 17.
How long will we have to stay here, Tom Swift?" asked the elephant hunter anxiously. "Well, perhaps I can get the motor mended in two or three days," answered the young inventor. "Then we'll have to stay here in the meanwhile," decided Mr. Durban. "Well, we'll make the best of it.
Haven't I the best right to know whether it is bad or good?" "Not bad, I am sure," said Julius, quickly and anxiously. "Oh, no, not bad," answered Anne. "He has seen him had him on board for a night." "Where?" "Off Durban. But this whole sheet about it is marked 'Private only for Julius, so I could say nothing about it before your mother.
Wilbur spent an hour along the wharves, watching the great grain ships consigned to "Cork for orders" slowly gorging themselves with whole harvests of wheat from the San Joaquin Valley; lumber vessels for Durban and South African ports settling lower and lower to the water's level as forests of pine and redwood stratified themselves along their decks and in their holds; coal barges discharging from Nanaimo; busy little tugs coughing and nuzzling at the flanks of the deep-sea tramps, while hay barges and Italian whitehalls came and went at every turn.
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