MARCH DOWN THE COUNTRY--TERMINATION OF THE WAR.
C----, who had been unwell from the time of our tremendous soaking
the day we waded the Caledon river, when we had to remain two hours
standing in wet clothes, waiting for the waggons crossing the drift,
had become so ill as to be unable to march. The excellent missionary
at Platberg, Mr. Giddy, had shown him the greatest kindness possible,
doing everything in his power to add what comforts he could to the
hard fare of camp life. He was now placed in an ox waggon, which,
jolting and bumping over the rocky road, crept slowly on step by step
of the long and weary journey homewards. At our first night's halt, the
Assistant-Commissioner, Mr. Owen, who had ridden over to Thaba Bossigo,
rejoined us. He had had a friendly interview with Moshesh, who gave
him a capital breakfast, with European appliances of great variety;
and among other luxuries, placed before him a bottle of port and a
couple of large jars of Gunter's preserves! He strongly expressed his
anxiety to maintain peace, and stand on an amicable footing with the
Government; and when Mr. Owen mentioned his wish that the bodies of our
brave men who had fallen, should be interred, he sent his sons with a
few Basutos to dig graves, and assist Mr. Owen's party. The body of
Capt. Faunce was recognised, and laid in a separate grave.
December 25th, Christmas day.--Scorched by the sun from above and the
sand under foot, the long waving column moved slowly across the dead
sun-baked karroo, and when late in the day it halted at Lieuw Rivier,
we felt as though we would give all we possessed for a little of the
ice and snow with which our far distant friends were doubtless at that
moment surrounded. Some attempted the manufacture of a plum pudding
with corn meal, black sugar, and currants boiled in a tin-tot tied up
in a pocket handkerchief; but it was even a more miserable failure
than the roast beef which, instead of being made into the usual soup,
was placed upon the table like a piece of burnt leather. The generous
liquor with which these luxuries were washed down, was Dutch gin and
muddy water.
In the evenings, as soon as the glowing sun had sunk behind the distant
ranges of pale purple mountains, the temperature was delightful. We
collected in knots, and stretched on plaids or tiger-skins on the sand,
enjoyed our pipes, watching the few light and brightly tinted clouds
that floated airily in the warm sky; the droves of cattle and mules,
and troops of cavalry horses returning from their short pasture; the
busy camp before us, where, as the darkness fell, the glowing fires
showed themselves; or the bright stars that shone out one after another
in the blue heaven like so many globes of light. Moments such as these,
compensated for the toil and heat of the day.
27th.--On arriving at our encamping ground, C---- was so much worse
that a Medical Board was held on him at once, and leave to England
recommended; before the rear of the column was up, we were off after
the Governor-General's column, which had gone on in advance. Colonel
MacDuff, in the kindest and most generous manner, tumbled everything
out of his own mule waggon, and gave it up at once, to enable us to
overtake and keep up with them. After a sharp trot of ten miles without
any escort whatever, we were very glad to see his Excellency's little
camp about a mile ahead. The whole plain at this point was completely
whitened with endless flocks of migratory storks, apparently feeding on
the locusts which were flying over in clouds. They were quite close to
the waggon track on both sides. The unexpected appearance of a single
horseman and waggon approaching across the solitary plain at such a
late hour, brought out several officers, by whom we were most cordially
and hospitably received, his Excellency also kindly sending to offer
the invalid anything his better cuisine afforded.
At three o'clock next morning, we trekked along with the cavalry and
mule train at six miles an hour, a change most delightful after the
slow pace of the ox waggons. Numbers of springbok and blesbok were seen
in every direction, and 'jagged' whenever near enough to render it easy
to overtake the party again, which was a very different affair from
catching up the infantry column. After a good thirty miles, we came
early in the afternoon to the Caledon River, which, though running very
strong, was just fordable for the waggons, and encamped on the opposite
bank.
C----, who had eaten nothing for four days but a few teaspoonfuls of
dirty brown arrow-root, made with muddy vley water, and sweetened with
black ration sugar, grew rapidly worse, and towards evening became
quite unconscious; all night long, as I watched under the waggon, he
wandered, and talked incoherently of home.
When all were gone to rest, the most perfect silence reigned through
the camp: the night was splendid,--the clear bright heavens were
studded with brilliant stars down to the very horizon,--the moon glided
along in silvery light over the vast plain, on which imagination
pictured thousands of wild animals sleeping or feeding in undisturbed
enjoyment,--till the creaking of the waggon, as poor C---- tossed about
on his miserable bed, recalled one's thoughts to realities.
It wanted an hour to daylight, and the stars still shone with
undiminished brightness, when suddenly the loud clear notes of the
reveillé, never before welcomed, rung out from the head-quarter tent,
and were taken up and repeated on all sides by the bugles and trumpets
of each detachment; the general hum through the camp soon told that all
were astir, and the toils of another day commenced.
The first few hours were delightfully cool and pleasant; but as the sun
rose higher, it became less and less agreeable, and long before we came
in sight of the distant belt of trees that marked the course of the
Orange River the heat was again intense.
As the river was "up," and there were no means of crossing except by
the pontoons and a large flat-bottomed ferry-boat, it was necessary
to encamp on the bank during the tedious operation of getting the
waggons over. The mules were first embarked, and as there were some
300, all of which objected most obstinately to going on board, it was
not effected all at once. One by one the waggons were spoked to the top
of the bank and let down by ropes, the boat accommodating one only at
a time. All night long the waggons were going across by moonlight; the
Dutchmen as well as the officers and men taking watches of four hours.
Next morning, when it came to our turn to cross, the thoughtful and
feeling soldiers, scarce speaking above a whisper, let down "the sick
officer's waggon" with the greatest care. When about half way across
the river, one of the long sweeps worked by the Lancers broke in two,
and we were carried some distance down the rapid stream, and at last
got entangled among the thick willow-trees below the landing place. A
hawser was, with some difficulty, got ashore, and the fatigue party
passing it from tree to tree, endeavoured to haul us to an opening, but
the rope broke, and in a moment we were whirled round and drifting away
towards a dangerous rapid in the middle of the river, the Dutchmen from
the ferry screaming to us to keep away from the rocks. But it was much
easier to say what to do, than to effect it with one lumbering sweep;
in another minute we must all have been "gethan" (_done_), as the Boers
prophesied, when a puffing snorting black head, with a rope between its
teeth, appeared swimming bravely astern, and a dripping Fingo clambered
into the punt with a cable from shore. We were again hauled up to
the trees, through which the stream swept with resistless strength,
carrying us against the large overhanging branches with such force as
nearly to capsize the waggon out of the boat. Four or five Sappers
with axes, under direction of Stanton, were in the tree in an instant;
while others, swimming about in the boiling flood, cleared away the
boughs, and at last we were moored to the bank, but it was so high and
perpendicular, as well as thickly wooded, that the waggon had to be
entirely unloaded (C---- being carried up in a stretcher), and several
large trees felled before the waggon could be got to the top with the
united efforts of four and twenty mules and some scores of fellows with
tow-ropes and levers.
Night again came round, and still a third of the camp remained on the
other side.
In the morning, as we breakfasted under the trees on the edge of the
lofty bank, admiring the bright sunny river and its green islands, it
was curious to see the cavalry horses swim across, following a mounted
Totty. The stream had considerably abated, and they landed safely, and
at a very little distance below the drift-path. His Excellency and
Staff followed in the pontoon, and our march was resumed.
It was New Year's Day when we again reached Burghersdorp; brand-new
waggons painted the brightest red, yellow, and blue, drawn by sleek
spans of fat oxen, and filled with Boers, vrouws and children, dressed
in their holiday clothes, were pouring into the town; others stood
outspanned in groups, with tents pitched round them; the stores were
all closed, and service was going on in the church.
Thirty miles a day soon brought us back to the Colony; our eyes were
once more delighted with the sight of trees; the bush looked lovely;
the mimosas were one sheet of golden blossom, filling the air with the
most fragrant perfume; and jessamine, bignonia, and plumbago, with
numbers of beautiful flowering bulbs, appeared at every step,--a change
most grateful to all after the bare and arid wilderness we had so long
been traversing.
On the 9th of January we reached the Blinkwater standing camp, where
we met many old friends, and the same evening got to Fort Beaufort,
where C----, whose shoulders were bleeding from the constant jolting of
the waggon, was moved from his rough, narrow bed, to a four-poster at
the little inn; and the kind-hearted Mrs. Mills replaced his awkward
nurses.
No outbreak or disturbance whatever had taken place among the
thoroughly dispersed Kaffirs, nor had any case of cattle stealing
occurred during the long absence of so large a portion of the army.
The Waterkloof, so long contested and dearly won, was at length
entirely evacuated by the enemy, and held, without molestation, by very
small garrisons.
Seyolo, the T'slambie Chief, one of Sandilli's principal supporters,
and a most warlike and active leader in the rebellion, was a prisoner
at Cape Town, where, not long afterwards, I visited him in his cell.
Moshesh, the head of the Basutos, we had left at Thaba Bassou, humbled
enough, and only too desirous to maintain peace.
In Tambookie Land everything was perfectly quiet, the Tambookies having
settled down in profound peace, in their appointed location; and more
than 800 applications had been sent in by the Burghers for farms in the
unappropriated districts.
Kreli was suing for peace.
The Amatolas and Gaika district were entirely cleared of Kaffirs and
Hottentots; Sandilli and the other Chiefs had fled beyond the Kei, and
the whole tribe was dispersed.
Thus the war was now virtually brought to an end; the rebel tribes
being everywhere vanquished or enfeebled, and the happy effects of
restored tranquillity already began to be felt in the country. The
settlers, who had fled to the towns for refuge from the outrages of the
enemy, began to return to their devastated farms,--the neglected fields
were once more under the plough--their ruined houses were again roofed
in,--and even those unfortunate farmers, whom a second and a third war
might well have driven to hopeless despair, took courage, and, like
the phoenix, the promise of future prosperity once more rose from the
ashes of their blackened homesteads.
Not long afterwards Peace was proclaimed, and General Cathcart was
enabled to withdraw a large portion of the forces from the scene of
their long and harassing campaign. The Rifle Brigade were ordered for
home, and the 12th Lancers, 43rd Light Infantry, and 74th Highlanders
to India.
After two days' rest, C---- was again placed in a mule waggon, and,
with a small cavalry escort, we proceeded by easy stages to Grahams
Town and thence to Port Elizabeth, reaching the little harbour on the
fourth day. The change, and fresh sea breezes had a wonderful effect
on the invalid. One day, a huge steamer hove in sight, which brought
wondering crowds to the shore, and rapidly steaming in, proved to be
the famed "Great Britain," when, after all the hardships, sufferings,
and privations of the campaign, I had the satisfaction of seeing him in
a comfortable berth homeward bound.
THE END.
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17 23 _for_ Basutas _read_ Basutos.
23 8 _and elsewhere_, _for_ Fingoe _read_ Fingo.
24 30 _after_ interest _insert_ us.
24 32 _for_ C. Capellas _read_ Capellos.
30 14 _after_ branches _dele the points_.
39 21 _for_ clasped-knife _read_ clasp-knife.
48 7 _for_ bridge _read_ ridge.
54 23 _for_ them _read_ him.
55 10 _for_ Windogelberg _read_ Windvogelberg.
56 28 _for_ Son-of-Vongya _read_ son of Vongya.
58 31 _dele_ semicolon.
61 25 _for_ Son-of-Tyali _read_ son of Tyali.
64 23 _for_ dahga _read_ dagha.
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Obvious errors of punctuation and diacritics repaired.
Hyphen replaced by space: death[-]wound (p. 110), REIT[-]FONTEIN (p.
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Hyphen added: ant[-]hills (p. 25), cow[-]dung (p. 299), cow[-]horn
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wide[-]awake (p. 164), wild[-]looking (p. 309).
Hyphen removed: a[-]head (p. 301), battle[-]axes (pp. 309, 316),
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duyker[-]bok (p. 24), harte[-]beest (p. 50), night[-]fall (p. 26),
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Both versions of "day break" / "day-break", "farm house" /
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been changed.
The attributions of the plates are illegible and have been removed.
P. 2: We steamed away, eat and drank -> We steamed away, ate and drank.
P. 22: spite of which -> in spite of which.
P. 32: a "vlei" in front of our right wing -> a "vley" in front of our
right wing.
P. 33: redered all pursuit hopeless -> rendered all pursuit hopeless.
P. 44: KOOAP RIVER -> KOONAP RIVER.
P. 56: kept us awake great part of the night -> kept us awake a great
part of the night.
P. 110: waiting a fresh supply of ammunition -> awaiting a fresh supply
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P. 120: as if to envelope us -> as if to envelop us.
P. 179: haversacs -> haversacks.
Pp. 191, 232, 239, 275: hyena(s) -> hyæna(s).
P. 216: Colonels Napier and Michel -> Colonels Napier and Michell.
P. 244: red wollen nightcaps -> red woolen nightcaps.
P. 251: biovouac fires -> bivouac fires.
P. 282: the two pair of serviceable boots -> the two pairs of
serviceable boots.
P. 327: bran-new waggons -> brand-new waggons.
Ad on last page: engraved, bound and guilt -> engraved, bound and gilt.