PART II

I. THE DÉBUT OF THE LOST LEGION IN NATAL 215

II. A QUEER CARD 232

III. A CONVERSION THAT FAILED 257

IV. JACK ASHORE IN 1871 265

V. THE CONVERSION OF MIKE O'LEARY 275

VI. BUSHED 283

VII. THE NON-COM.'S REVENGE 293

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

T. F. KYNNERSLEY OF LEIGHTON SALOP, CAPT. AND S.O. OF L.H., 1879 _Frontispiece_

REWI FIGHTING CHIEF OF THE WAIKATOS _to face page_ 20

GATEWAY TO MAORI KIANGA " 56

A MAORI GIRL " 80

YARN SPINNING IN SOUTH AFRICA " 214

TE TARATA, THE WHITE TERRACE, ROTOMAHANA " 192

THE CONVERSION OF MIKE O'LEARY " 280

THE NEGLECTED SOLDIER

Fame is but a fleeting shadow, Glory but an empty name; Spite of all that I have gone through, 'Tis, I find, a losing game:

Without interest, without money, Nothing can a soldier gain; Though he be the sole survivor Of a host of comrades slain:

What avail these glitt'ring honours, Which a queen laid on my breast; Though I've sought them from my childhood, Would I'd fallen with the rest:

Then my heart had not been broken Life had fled without a sigh; Hunger presses--I am fainting-- Ought a soldier thus to die? THE OLD SHEKARRY.

CAMP-FIRE YARNS OF THE LOST LEGION