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Updated: June 2, 2025
Pete had no horse; and the sheriff, taking him at his word, had refused to give up either one of the rifles unless Pete would declare which one he had used that fateful night of the raid. And Pete would not do that. He felt that somehow he had been cheated.
Pistols are very effective in buffalo-hunting, as the hunter can ride up close to the animal, and fire at it while at full speed; whereas the long heavy rifles used on the frontier cannot be easily managed nor discharged with accurate aim from horseback. My object, therefore, was to get within pistol-shot of the buffalo. This was no very easy matter.
"What I contended all along the house-boys are not to be trusted." "It does look serious," Harriwell admitted, "but we'll come through it all right. What the sanguinary niggers need is a shaking up. Will you gentlemen please bring your rifles to dinner, and will you, Mr. Brown, kindly prepare forty or fifty sticks of dynamite. Make the fuses good and short. We'll give them a lesson.
He tripped and fell and was so severely wounded by the Bajows, after killing three of them with his revolver, that he died a few days afterwards at Sandakan. By this time the Sikhs had got their rifles and firing on the retreating party killed three and wounded two. Assistant Resident LITTLE, who had received a spear in his arm, shot his opponent dead with his revolver.
Grobler then left his prey, and both he and Cächet seized their rifles and made for better regions. Thinking that it might be only a patrol of the enemy that had come upon us incidentally and not intentionally, I tried hard to get the rather panic-stricken burghers into action. At a gate through which they had to pass I stopped them, and ordered them back.
He looked into the muzzles of rifles, and he saw the morning sun flashing along the edges of bayonets. But the regiment, although torn by bullets, did not give ground. The charge shivered against them, and the Southern troops fell back. Yet it was only for a moment.
They determined to get them back, and were rallying desperately to battle. Nearly all of them were armed by this time, and flight after flight of spears and arrows were thrown or shot toward the airship. Fortunately it was too dark to enable the pygmies to take good aim. They were guided, to an extent, by the flashes of fire from the rifles, but these were only momentary.
With an army of Boers at their gates and 50,000 riotous blacks in their midst, the odds against success would have been too heavy even if the whole town had been armed. With only 2,500 rifles in the place, they stood really no chance. To me, the military problems of the situation are of more interest than the political ones, because by disposition I have always been especially fond of war.
There will be Lee-Metford rifles and ammunition there ready for thy taking ha-ha!" "And if we are seen and fired on as we stalk the picket on the hill?" "Then their first shot will, as I said, be the signal for your rush and ours. Understandest thou?" "I understand. 'Tis a good plan of the blind Moulvie's." "Aye! He can plan, and talk.
The German officer sprang toward the rifles. Berthine stopped him with a gesture, and said, smilingly: "It's only the wolves. They are like you prowling hungry through the forest." The incredulous man wanted to see with his own eyes, and as soon as the door was opened he perceived two large grayish animals disappearing with long, swinging trot into the darkness.
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