something very important to say. His reticence was most remarkable, and for hours together he would not open his lips. These two were sworn friends; and as each of them had more pluck in his body than all the other blacks I have ever met with put together, and both were capital shots, they succeeded during the campaign in successfully accomplishing the most daring exploits possible for anyone to undertake. After a day's fighting they habitually got their men together, and followed the retreating enemy far into the night.

How they came out alive from some of their undertakings was always a marvel to us. The next evening a man rushed into the camp carrying an Arab gun, and bringing a message to the effect that the Arabs were in force, and that after severe fighting the position had not been carried. The Commandant