tempsky's

Updated: May 19, 2025

When the troops withdrew to camp after dark, while ten files of Major Von Tempsky's Rangers were covering the rear of the stretcher parties, he remained with them, only crossing the river with the last men.

William Henry Giles Kingston - Our Soldiers: Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign

I am pointing out that he was no coward, in order that you may appreciate what happens later on. I've seen him in the breaking yard at the Haleakala Ranch, conquering a four-year-old brute that for two years had defied the pick of Von Tempsky's cow-boys. And I must tell of one other thing. It was down in Kona, or up, rather, for the Kona people scorn to live at less than a thousand feet elevation.

Jack London - The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii