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Updated: May 17, 2025
Captain Clive was in communication by heliograph with Lashio, at the end of the railroad, and received a résumé of world news two or three times a week. With mirrors during the day and lanterns at night messages were flashed from one mountain top to another and, under favorable conditions, reached Lashio in seven or eight hours.
Our fifteen-pounder, after having been fired a few times, had given out, while our pom-pom could only be used from time to time after the artilleryman had righted it. I had a heliograph post near the left-hand position, one near the centre and the one belonging to my staff on our extreme right.
Stephen retired from the argument, and mounted a steep, rough stairway, close to the gate, which led to the flat top of the wall, and had formerly been connected by a platform with the ruined heliograph tower. The wall was perhaps two feet thick, and though the top was rough and somewhat broken, it was easy to walk upon it.
An old table in the middle of the room I pulled over to the chimney, tugged at some of the brick that I had noticed, and the whole thing caved in, part of a heliograph outfit falling out. The old fellow made a dart for the door, but was peremptorily intercepted. "Damn you, stay where you are!"
Somebody and he was able to form a pretty accurate guess who was using a hand-glass or shaving-mirror as a heliograph, evidently either trying to attract the attention of someone on shore, or sending a message: it did not much signify which, for Frobisher was easily able to pick out the spot on shore where the light impinged.
You haven't a connection by any chance?" "No. Wish we had. The heliograph is no good, and the telegraph is still under the consideration of some engineer man. But how do you propose to get to Nazri? It's only twelve miles, but they are mostly up on end." "I did it when I was here before. It's easy enough if you have done any rock-climbing, and I can leave with the light. Besides, there's a moon."
They had no telegraph, no heliograph, no arsenal. Modern implements of war they have been able to obtain only in late years and then in meagre quantities, even then only by capture or at exorbitant rates. The Indian has proved himself a redoubtable and masterful foe.
Rhodes," the heliograph ran, "that on my entry into Kimberley he and his friends must take their immediate departure."
No sooner had he begun to remove his wet diving- suit than the man who had signalled with the heliograph that we had found Del Mar's message from "below," whatever that might mean, entered the house and was announced by the valet. "Let him come in immediately," ordered Del Mar, placing his suit in a closet. Then to the man, as he entered, he said, "Well, what's new?"
There they crouched in the brush ready to press the plunger the moment our car touched the planking. One of the men crept out a little nearer the road. "They're coming!" he called back, dropping down again. "Get ready!" Del Mar's emissaries had not reckoned, however, that any one else might be about to whom the heliograph was an open book.
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