Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 168W. Blackwood, 1900 - Scotland |
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Page 140
... Bloemfontein . He started at midnight , mounted on picked horses a wide sweep had to be made to avoid Boer pickets ; though the night was dark and the ground broken with nullahs the line was reached before daylight , and a search made ...
... Bloemfontein . He started at midnight , mounted on picked horses a wide sweep had to be made to avoid Boer pickets ; though the night was dark and the ground broken with nullahs the line was reached before daylight , and a search made ...
Page 141
... Bloemfontein to the Vaal is 200 miles , guarded by a division at the former place and a brigade at Kroonstad , about halfway . On the 7th June De Wet struck the railway at Roodeval , a station about twelve miles south of Kroonstad ...
... Bloemfontein to the Vaal is 200 miles , guarded by a division at the former place and a brigade at Kroonstad , about halfway . On the 7th June De Wet struck the railway at Roodeval , a station about twelve miles south of Kroonstad ...
Page 142
... Bloemfontein how much the Boers had improved their system of destruction : in every case the demolition had been very thorough , probably the work of Hollanders , who had already been caught in the act of blowing up bridges and culverts ...
... Bloemfontein how much the Boers had improved their system of destruction : in every case the demolition had been very thorough , probably the work of Hollanders , who had already been caught in the act of blowing up bridges and culverts ...
Page 184
... Bloemfontein be sent to Pretoria . Though things looked black , they had looked so before , and something might " turn up . " March 10. - We decided that , if only for the sake of exercise , we must do something . The only thing was to ...
... Bloemfontein be sent to Pretoria . Though things looked black , they had looked so before , and something might " turn up . " March 10. - We decided that , if only for the sake of exercise , we must do something . The only thing was to ...
Page 185
... Bloemfontein came . On the previous evening we had decided to try an experiment to soften the hard earth , and had emptied half - a - dozen bottles of water into our shaft . On going there this morning we found that it had had excellent ...
... Bloemfontein came . On the previous evening we had decided to try an experiment to soften the hard earth , and had emptied half - a - dozen bottles of water into our shaft . On going there this morning we found that it had had excellent ...
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