The Archive · 1900

EYRIES OF BIRDS OF PREY

look into them, with their rude riy, xesttered food, and general debris, was as if one viewed the nests of so many hawks, Qa the kopje the Boor commander had compelled the poorer men of his emmunnte to live for weeks, took it that these were men of the servant and the Isboucer cles. Tnvie dead, whose untidy and elected bodies To saw seated as the Mets and bayonets found then hwory, for they were poorly clu,, unclean, and hungey> looking. They were of that class of Boer Tames Bryce describes as having 1 ata seventeenth and iletoriorated for 30) years, when I saw such men among the dead, the woundd, and the prisoners, how it could be that white men could n we the white flag xnd mock the sacred purpose of the Geneva Crass. ring, a sack in which food and clothes: ad been brought and which next had served aga pallet, som mealies, unleavened biscuit or h s, junks of biltong or

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