_Told by Corporal H. J. McElnea, late of the Imperial Light Horse,
South Africa, and set down by J. Christie_
An echo of General Botha's brilliant campaign in German South-West
Africa. Captured by the Germans during a skirmish, the author gleaned
some information concerning the intentions of the enemy. Night and
day he schemed to get away in order to give his superiors the news.
Finally, with three companions, he essayed the task of escaping from
the military prison at Franzfontein and making his way for over two
hundred and fifty miles through a terrible region of uninhabited
mountains and desert to Swakopmund, where the British forces were
in occupation. Lack of food and water, suffering of body and mind,
blistering heat and extreme cold--the author experienced them all
during his nightmare journey, which he related in the _Wide World
Magazine_.