another reason. I mounted an ant-hill to see how things were going, and how the enemy were posted; straight in front of me, on another hill about sixty yards off”, the opponent chief with his staff was posted. On seeing me he promptly commenced emptying his Winchester in my direction, till I knocked him off his perch with a Mauser bullet in his chest. A year afterwards Scherlink met this man; and the chief, quite proud of them, showed him the scars that the bullet had left in his breast-bone and back, after which it had passed through the abdomen of one of his men, who died some days after from the wound.

My brother officers used to suggest that the bullet had become septic in passing through the chiefs chest, and that the second man had probably died of blood-poisoning. After much experience with different patterns