This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... A GENERAL HOLIDAY. 139 CHAPTER XII. A GENERAL HOLIDAY--A BAD SHOT--AN INNOCENT ENJOYMENT--AN ALARM--HEIDELBERG--A BOER LEADER--KLIP RIVER. Leave had been given to nearly all the officers and a great many of the men to go out shooting. This permission very few seemed inclined to neglect, and small ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... A GENERAL HOLIDAY. 139 CHAPTER XII. A GENERAL HOLIDAY--A BAD SHOT--AN INNOCENT ENJOYMENT--AN ALARM--HEIDELBERG--A BOER LEADER--KLIP RIVER. Leave had been given to nearly all the officers and a great many of the men to go out shooting. This permission very few seemed inclined to neglect, and small parties of twos and threes might have been seen leaving the camp all the morning. General Buller started off with his servant to look for wildebeeste, which rumour asserted had been seen the day before, and his aide-de-camp Captain Browne departed in an opposite direction; the ambition of this latter not soaring so high as that of his chief, he professed himself contented if he could secure a blesbok. With such numbers of sportsmen anxious to get a shot, the anticipations of sport were not very brilliant; we, however, fell into the general snare, and, more to pass the time than anything else, a party of three of us, taking with us our rifles, rode forth to see what luck would befall our fortunes. For some time we rode without seeing anything, the frequent report of guns and rifles sounding in our ears. A heavy mirage trembled and glittered around, turning rocks into living shapes, and deceiving us with its innumerable lakes, covered with wild-fowl. So often were we misled by these glittering deceptions, that when at length we did suddenly come upon some antelope, we for several minutes doubted our own sight. Then away went Mr. Holland and my husband galloping to encircle them, while I rode quietly on to the brow of a little hill that lay ahead, hoping to come upon a herd of blesbok. My hopes were verified; not fifty yards in front of where I stood some springbok, with swift, graceful bounds, placed distance and safety between my rifle and...
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