mimosa-shadowed

Updated: May 12, 2025

The men had no knowledge of where they were going or what they had to do, but they crept silently along under a drifting sky, with peeps of a quarter moon, over a mimosa-shadowed plain. At last in front of them there loomed a dark mass it was Gun Hill, from which one of the great Creusots had plagued them. A Dutch outpost challenged, but was satisfied by a Dutch-speaking Carabineer.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Great Boer War