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The Houssas, who had been trained as artillerymen, worked their gun and rocket tube with great energy, yelling and whooping as each round of grape or canister was fired into the bush, or each rocket whizzed out. Notwithstanding the heavy loss which they were suffering, the Ashantis stood their ground most bravely.
Your Winchester will scarcely make accurate firing at five hundred yards." The Houssas were already on the wall, anxious to open fire. Mr. Goodenough saw that their rifles were sighted to five hundred yards. The cannon offered an easy mark. They were ranged along side by side, surrounded by a crowd of negroes, who yelled and danced each time a shot struck the wall. "Now," Mr.
When the news was flashed to Europe that a party of British Houssas were holding the banks of the N'glili river, and had inflicted a loss upon a force of criminals, the approval which civilization should rightly have bestowed upon Captain Hamilton and his heroic lieutenant was tempered largely by the question as to whether Captain Hamilton and his Houssas had any right whatever to be upon "the red field."
Hamilton came through the clearing, and formed his men rapidly. Sword in hand, in advance of the glittering bayonets, Bones raced across the red field, and after one brief and glorious melee the invader was driven back, and a dropping fire from the left, as the Houssas shot steadily at the flying enemy, completed the disaster to Bizaro's force. "That settles that!" said Hamilton.
Thence the visitors strolled away to watch a number of Houssas in hot pursuit of some bullocks, which were to be put on board the steamers and taken up the river to the great camp. These had broken loose in the night, and the chase was an exciting one.
He was a methodical man and had little time for the work at hand, for the mail-boat was waiting to carry him to another station. "The Houssas are all right, I suppose?" asked Sir Robert. "Discipline good no crime?" "The discipline is excellent, sir," replied Hamilton, heartily, "and we haven't had any serious crime for years."
From all the men of many hues who make up the British Empire, from Hindoo Rajahs, from West African Houssas, from Malay police, from Western Indians, there came offers of service. But this was to be a white man's war, and if the British could not work out their own salvation then it were well that empire should pass from such a race.
Small wonder that Captain Hamilton held an informal court-martial of one, the closing stages of which I have described, and sentenced his wholly inefficient subordinate to seven days' field exercise in the forest with half a company of Houssas. "Oh, dash it, you don't mean that?" asked Bones in dismay when the finding of the court was conveyed to him at lunch. "I do," said Hamilton firmly.
Let four of the Houssas with their guns come with us." Following the direction of the sounds they had heard, the travelers came upon a troupe of great baboons. It was a curious sight. The males were as big as large dogs, some were sitting sunning themselves on rocks, others were being scratched by the females.
Lieutenant Francis Augustus Tibbetts of the Houssas was at some disadvantage with his chief and friend. Bones was hurt. Hamilton had behaved to him as no brother officer should behave. Hamilton had spoken harshly and cruelly in the matter of a commission with which he had entrusted his subordinate, and with which the aforesaid subordinate had lamentably failed to cope.
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