Category: Adventure
In the early summer of the year of grace 1844 the _Surat Castle_, a fine clipper barque of 400 tons burthen, left the London docks on a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, with a valuable cargo and several passengers, including a small draft of volunteers and recruits for the Sai...
The sun had set and "retreat" long since been sounded when the escort reached Burns Hill, so that by the time Tom Flinders had reported himself to Captain Jamieson, had seen his...
18. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN.The stars were still bright in the heavens, and the grey dawn of day had not yet appeared in the east, when the camp at Burns Hill was once more astir with the final preparation...
4. CHAPTER FOUR."I have already stated," began Mr Weston, "that I was educated at Rugby, where I first became acquainted with our young friend's father. Mat Flinders and I were both school-hous...
14. CHAPTER FOURTEEN.Although the Cape government declared war almost immediately after the "palaver" at Block Drift, some considerable time elapsed before the troops received final orders to take t...
8. CHAPTER EIGHT.The night passed away quietly and day dawned with all the splendour of a South African morning. By five o'clock the little camp was astir, and our friends, having first enjoyed...
21. CHAPTER TWENTY ONE.For three days after Untsikana left the kraal, Tom Flinders and Frank Jamieson were kept in the closest confinement, not being allowed to take any exercise, nor even so much as...
13. CHAPTER THIRTEEN.Nearly two years have passed since the events recorded in the previous chapters, and our hero is once more the guest of Captain Jamieson. The Westons, too, are at Ralfontein, li...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN."The carts are all corrict, sorr, and ready for the line of march," reported Mr Patrick Keown, whilom a troop sergeant-major in the "Cape Mounted Riflemen," but now his former c...
12. CHAPTER TWELVE."Why, here come the boys!" exclaimed Major Flinders, as he and his friend Weston sat round the camp fire, on the banks of the Gamska River, smoking their after-supper pipes and...
11. CHAPTER ELEVEN.Early next morning the march was resumed across the Groote Karoo--a vast undulating plain clothed with long waving grass, and studded with acacias, mimosa bushes, and camel-thor...
15. CHAPTER FIFTEEN.Shortly before daylight on the 17th April, the trumpets of the 7th Dragoon Guards and of the Cape Mounted Rifles, and the shrill bugles of the infantry corps, sounding the "reve...
20. CHAPTER TWENTY."Can this possibly be you, Tom?" exclaimed Frank Jamieson in utter astonishment, when, in the squalid, half-clad figure lying huddled up against the wall of the hut, he recognis...
23. CHAPTER TWENTY THREE.Nearly opposite to the spot where the travellers had halted, the Storm Bergen were pierced by a narrow "poort" or valley, presenting a gloomy and terrific aspect of solitude. Th...
1. CHAPTER ONE.In the early summer of the year of grace 1844 the _Surat Castle_, a fine clipper barque of 400 tons burthen, left the London docks on a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, with a v...
6. CHAPTER SIX.Five miles from Cape Town, on the Wynberg and Simon's Town road, lies the picturesque, wood-girt village of Rondebosch. The ground in rear of this village is beautifully timbere...
2. CHAPTER TWO."My eyes don't often play me false," said that officer to Captain Ladds, who had followed him into the fore-top; "and I'm a'most sartin that I can make out people moving about o...
3. CHAPTER THREE.The sun was high in the heavens when young Weston awoke next morning, and on turning his face to the light, the first object that his eyes rested upon was Master Tom Flinders, s...
16. CHAPTER SIXTEEN.The most direct route from the Chumie Hoek to the Burns Hill mission station led along the valley up which Campbell's infantry column had fought its way that morning; through th...
24. CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR.The bullock-waggons which had attracted Frank Jamieson's attention, when approaching the kraal, belonged to a certain Mr Abraham Shipp, who was engaged in the adventurous and no...
19. CHAPTER NINETEEN.When a hard unyielding substance such as a lump of rock, thrown with the full force of a vigorous arm, hits a man fairly on any part of--what Mr Seth Pecksniff, Emperor of servi...
9. CHAPTER NINE.Captain Jamieson's farm was situated in the midst of a fertile tract of country, bounded on the north and east by ranges of lofty mountains and hills; beyond which lay vast plai...
22. CHAPTER TWENTY TWO.Although by a concatenation of unforeseen circumstances--that is to say, the accidental possession of a bottle of chloroform, and the Caffres' extraordinary craze for European m...
5. CHAPTER FIVE."The perils and the dangers of the voyage are past, And the barque has arrived at--at--at Cape Town at last; The sails are furled, and the anchor's cast, And the happiest of the--"
10. CHAPTER TEN."Good-bye, and a pleasant journey to you," said Captain Jamieson, who, with his sons and daughters, had turned out at daybreak to see the last of his departing guests. "Follow t...