Tlaving described the position in Natal when he arrived there, he proceeded to give what he characterised as the trae account of his capture at Chieveley. He deseribed the armoured train, which ran dail, towards Colenso for the purpose of re: noirring, and how it went once too often and with disastrous results; he was captured and conveyed with other prisoners to Pretoria, By the aid of a limelight view ho showed his arrival at the model school at the capital. Next he described his escape from a life, the monotony of which must have been most trying. 'The school baure possessed a small garden, where the prisoners were allowed to walk, im' the evening it was brilliantly illuminated with electric light; it (fortunately) posse-sed one large tree which at night, thanks to the electric light, threw a deep shadow on to one portion of the outer wall. To this he owed his escape, as one night he managed to scale the wall at this point and so got off, Once outside he made for the railway static: where he managed to board the first train which passed. "In the morning, however, fearing detection, he thought it'better to leave it, and he spent the day in a wood with a vulture as a companion. People had sent him letters saying there were no vultures in South Africa. "He should leave the statement to be verified by the soldiers who were fighting in the country, but he could testify to one.
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When it was dark he resumed his journey; he was tired, cold and very hungry, and he thought much of home, and marvelled at his strange position. Just when he felt he could go no further, he saw a small settlement of houses quite near, and he determined to try hix luck atone. It turned out to be a coal mine, and by a fortunate chance he knocked at the door of the manager, who, was the only Britisher there.
was taken in and hidden for four days in the mine, where he amused himself by reading the " Standard and Diggers News, which informed him that he had escaped, but had been re-captured after fierce resist tance, ete, ete. His only company sisted of 'a large cot vtriel to ext his food directly it t him, but otherwise cause him no trouble. Eventually Mr. Herbere Howard, the kind manager, managed to hide him along some woolsicks in a goods train, which luckily came up to the mine's siding for coxl, and in that way he got to Lorenzo Marques, and so on to Durban and back to the Bri
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