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Updated: June 7, 2025
Arms and necks and knees burnt black by many weeks of tropic sun, carrying rifle and cartridge belts and with their helmets reversed to shade their eyes from the westering sun, this little body of Rhodesians, Royal Fusiliers and South Africans covered the road in the very loose formation these details of many regiments affect. Far ahead was the advance guard of four Rhodesians and Fusiliers.
In their hurried retirement the Germans had overlooked the fact that they had a prisoner, and the patrol had been sent back to bring him in. "How many men?" asked Wilmshurst, one of the Rhodesians translating the question and its reply. "Four white soldiers and ten Askaris, O chief," replied the headman. "Good enough," exclaimed Wilmshurst.
In the third-class we were quiet on the whole, and what is called well-behaved, though neither with millennial serenity nor millennial sobriety. A red-cheeked gentleman took a red-cheeked married lady and her child under his vigilant protection. Two or three Rhodesians and Jo'burgers enriched the bar with faithful fondness.
But woe betide the tired soldier who attempts to escape the tropical rain by taking refuge on the floor. In sleep he is attacked, and when his blind assailant is full of blood he drops off; so the soldier may never know that he has been bitten. I got twelve cases alone from one company of the Rhodesians, who sheltered in a native village near Kissaki.
The officers of the Second Rhodesians had seen nothing more of Tarzan of the Apes since he had slain Underlieutenant von Goss and disappeared toward the very heart of the German position, and there were those among them who believed that he had been killed within the enemy lines. "They may have killed him," assented Colonel Capell; "but I fancy they never captured the beggar alive."
That pandemonium had broken loose in the Hun trench was apparent to the Rhodesians not only from the appearance of the deserters, but from the sounds of screaming, cursing men which came clearly to their ears; but there was one that baffled them for it resembled nothing more closely than the infuriated growling of an angry lion.
Hitherto with the exception of the Rhodesians who have had this disease previously in their northern territory, or men who have come from the Congo or the shores of the Great Lakes, our army has been fairly free from this dread visitation.
I have arranged with Colonel Mopesson, of the Light Horse, for a mounted patrol to be sent in pursuit, and since it is desirable for some one to identify the Hun it sounds like counting our chickens before they are hatched, by the bye I propose that you accompany the Rhodesians." "Yes, sir," replied the subaltern. "Very good.
Above that the bamboos and the roof were riddled with bullets, making it a hazardous business for any one to stand upright. In the limited space were two Rhodesians suffering from gunshot wounds. Almost every other man of the patrol had been hit, but one and all made light of their injuries, and after receiving attention had resumed their places in the defence.
For a quarter of an hour the one-sided action was maintained, then still under the covering fire of the machine gun a battalion of Askaris advanced at the double in company formation en échelon. Simultaneously a half-battalion debouched on the opposite side of the kraal. The front attack stopped dead, the Askaris in open order falling in heaps before the accurate fire of the trained Rhodesians.
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