Category: Adventure
Many are the stories told at the outspan fires of the South African transport riders--some weird, some romantic, some of native wars, some of fierce encounters with the wild beasts of the land. Often have we stopped for a chat with the rugged transport riders, and some strange...
Many are the stories told at the outspan fires of the South African transport riders--some weird, some romantic, some of native wars, some of fierce encounters with the wild bea...
2. CHAPTER TWO.It was a fine spring morning in the City: even in the great dingy warehouse, where Cecil Kensley was engaged in cataloguing a vast store of ivory in preparation for the periodic...
3. CHAPTER THREE.Far away in the gloomiest recesses of a range lying between Zwart Ruggens and the Zwartberg, Cape Colony, not far from where the mountains of that wild and secluded district giv...
4. CHAPTER FOUR.Kwaneet, the Bushman, had lost his wife Nakeesa, and was just now a little puzzled what to do with himself. Nakeesa, poor thing, had been slain by a lion on the Tamalakan River...
5. CHAPTER FIVE.The few hunters, traders, and Trek Boers who cross the dreaded Thirstland of the Northern Kalahari, and, upon their long and trying journey towards Lake Ngami, strike the Lake R...
6. CHAPTER SIX.At six o'clock upon a hot morning of African December, Lieutenant Parton, of the Bechuanaland Border Police, came out of his bedroom at the Vryburg Hotel, equipped for a long tw...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN.The sun was setting as usual in a glow of marvellous splendour as Alida Van Zyl came out from her hartebeest house--a rough wattle and daub structure, thatched with reeds--and,...
8. CHAPTER EIGHT.Tobias De la Rey was one of those pastoral, hunting Boers who are still to be found in some numbers in the remoter parts of the North and East Transvaal. His farm was a poor one...
9. CHAPTER NINE.It was a fine warm evening at Kimberley, and Frank Farnborough, just before the dinner hour at the "Central," was fortifying his digestion with a glass of sherry and bitters, an...
10. CHAPTER TEN.The circumstances attending the fate of Leonard Strangeways were very extraordinary, and the three years of silence and doubt that followed the discovery of his body in the veld...
11. CHAPTER ELEVEN.It was nearly four o'clock in the afternoon of a desperately hot October day, 1899, in British Bechuanaland. The rains, although close at hand, had not yet fallen. For the last...
12. CHAPTER TWELVE.They were sitting by a big camp fire, close to the junction of the Marico and Crocodile Rivers--on the Bechuanaland side, where the old trade road to the interior runs--a motley...
13. CHAPTER THIRTEEN.Upon a morning of early December in the year 1880, Arend Van Driel, the Trek Boer, stood upon his waggon-box anxiously scanning the plains for any sight of game. Leaning upon th...
14. CHAPTER FOURTEEN.On a March morning Charlie Thirlmere and his wife were at breakfast in their pretty flat near Park Lane. A cloud sat on Charlie's fresh, good-looking face. He looked at his wife...