Category: Historical Novels
Ned Romer, the long-acknowledged hero and captain of the school, was about seventeen years of age. He had won his supremacy, as all lads must do at schools, by hard fighting and expertness in outdoor games and sports, as much as by general proficiency in his studies.
At Mafeking our heroes received their final instructions, and were metamorphosed into three large-boned, amazonian young women, more awe-inspiring than beautiful to look upon. T...
32. CHAPTER THIRTY TWO.The queen looked them over leisurely for a full minute, then she slowly extended her arm and lowered her sceptre towards them; as she raised it again, Pylea and her followers st...
20. CHAPTER TWENTY.Each moment of the day and night they had to be on the qui vive, for it swarmed with hostile enemies, both human, inhuman, and climatical. It was lovely in its tropic luxuriance...
34. CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR."It is a wonderful story, boys. With those stones and bric-a-brac to support it, I am the last man in the world to cast doubts upon its veracity. I wish, however, that you had b...
14. CHAPTER FOURTEEN.It was a respectable and fair-sized house of the ordinary colonial fashion, with a broad covered verandah in front, and fine shady trees inside the rails--a comfortable and home...
33. CHAPTER THIRTY THREE.Swiftly and silently the leopards were harnessed to the chariots. Then each amazon took the reins, and, with her particular friend beside her, drove through the gates and into t...
31. CHAPTER THIRTY ONE.She had taken away fifty-six thousand foot and mounted soldiers. She brought home forty-eight thousand six hundred and twenty able-bodied amazons. Seven thousand three hundred a...
29. CHAPTER TWENTY NINE.Ned woke soon after sunrise the next morning, and before his companions. Fred, Clarence, Cocoeni, and the other Kaffirs were doing their best to eclipse the howling of the caged...
6. CHAPTER SIX.Small game was plentiful on some of the open parts, and afforded them good enough sport after a tame fashion. Here the Dutchmen displayed their wonderful skill as marksmen, and...
23. CHAPTER TWENTY THREE.They were in a perfect hunter's paradise; in fact, so plentiful and varied were the specimens they saw, that the prairie appeared like a well-stocked preserve. The game was so t...
16. CHAPTER SIXTEEN.He does not enjoy night-work, either. The night to him is thronged with "spooks" and other nameless horrors which he does not care to face. He can murder a Kaffir in the most at...
3. CHAPTER THREE.The next two weeks were spent in maturing plans by the young men for their intended expedition. Maps were consulted, and books of travel-- Livingstone, Stanley, and other author...
17. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN.The company at once pulled in their well-trained horses and stood stock-still. They had quitted the track, and were now just behind the crest of a kopje, so that their pursuers...
19. CHAPTER NINETEEN.Ned was the speaker, and Fred and Clarence the recipients of his sentiments. Six weeks had gone by since the night they first slept at Salisbury, and now they were encamped in t...
30. CHAPTER THIRTY.During these months they had been treated as honoured visitors; yet it was plainly intimated to them that they would not be permitted to depart until her majesty Isori had seen...
4. CHAPTER FOUR.Five hundred pounds seemed a big fortune to the three young adventurers, who had hitherto been more than passing wealthy on an odd half-sovereign. It was a vast sum to think abo...
13. CHAPTER THIRTEEN.Their recent overland experience among the burgher farmers had taken a good deal of the fine edge off their susceptibilities as to eating, drinking, and lodgment. It had also op...
10. CHAPTER TEN.There was nothing about the premises of the Three Ace Club so far to show its character. It was entered as a non-political club for British Africanders. As drink and gambling we...
27. CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN.In the hall above, the severely plain walls had been frescoed by the painter's art. Here the sculptor had displayed his mystic and religious skill with bold as well as intricate...
25. CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE."Ants," replied Cocoeni, hoarsely, while he shivered with unmistakable fear. "The bashikonay ants eat up every living thing in their way, and yonder they come in force; they hav...
26. CHAPTER TWENTY SIX.Then an exclamation from Clarence, who had stumbled over something and fallen on his face, drew their looks once more down to the ground, and all stood still for some moments, t...
36. CHAPTER THIRTY SIX.This most inhuman and bloody-minded Kruger, who misquoted Scripture, as he so often did, considered himself safe to order his victims to their empty tents. He had stripped them,...
15. CHAPTER FIFTEEN.Tender-hearted and magnanimous Uncle Paul had not come best out of this interview, neither had he exhibited much of his vaunted diplomacy and character-reading. Indeed, he had s...
11. CHAPTER ELEVEN.The life which our heroes led for the next few weeks in Johannesburg, although excessively useful, was not momentous. They learned to be sure of hitting the centre of the bull's...
12. CHAPTER TWELVE.One morning they had come into town, to have their customary promenade, listen to the latest news, and keep their blood flowing by watching the sights. Like Paddy, they were try...
9. CHAPTER NINE.His age was thirty-two, and he had both travelled and read a great deal. A South African by birth and descent of three generations, all his sympathies and hopes lay in his nativ...
24. CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR.Before this fatal accident matters had been slightly monotonous for Cocoeni and the other young sporting Basuto and Matabele braves. Since that irreparable loss, however--to use...
28. CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT."Wrestling must be a favourite pastime with these warlike ladies," murmured Ned, as he wiped his streaming face on his handkerchief. "Pouf! that was a hot bout, and no mistake."
8. CHAPTER EIGHT.England was powerless to help the Uitlanders as long as they chose to remain inert and submissive under the yoke. Dr Jameson and his dauntless band had demonstrated that no outs...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN.Stephanus Groblaar did not patronise the camp. Either he was too much ashamed or too sulky to show himself so soon after his ignominious defeat. While our heroes remained awake,...
5. CHAPTER FIVE.The first week at Cape Town shook them up more than years of living in England could have done. They had been only boys when they first sighted Table Mountain, but in a week's t...
18. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN.Three of the men denuded themselves of their beards, which our heroes put on, transforming themselves into middle-aged men in a twinkling. They left three young fellows, with th...
21. CHAPTER TWENTY ONE.Towards morning Clarence broke out into a lavish perspiration during Ned's watch. The moisture poured from him like rain for about half an hour, after which he sank into a more...
1. CHAPTER ONE.Ned Romer, the long-acknowledged hero and captain of the school, was about seventeen years of age. He had won his supremacy, as all lads must do at schools, by hard fighting and...
22. CHAPTER TWENTY TWO.Ned sternly put his veto on any more monkey-hunting, big or small, as a cruel and useless expenditure of ammunition. They were harmless if left alone, as they were not carnivoro...
2. CHAPTER TWO.On the same day that Fred Weldon fought with Clarence Raybold by the side of that Devon river, his father, the reputed wealthy Australian, died a bankrupt, leaving his family al...
37. CHAPTER THIRTY SEVEN.After their long confinement in Kimberley, our heroes were rejoiced to get the chance of a gallop over the veldt with the hunters of Cronje and his flying army. They therefore j...