Men of Men
“They took the road that Ralph Ballantyne’s wagons had recently pioneered from Fort Salisbury to GuBulawayo. They left all their furniture and possessions in the cottage outside the stockade of the king’s kraal – and they rode light, with a blanket roll on the pommel of the saddle and a food bag on one of the spare horses that Jan Cheroot brought up behind on a lead rein.
Louise rode like a man, astride and uncomplaining, and on the fifth day, unexpectedly, they came up with Jameson’s column... in camp around the skeletal headgear of Iron Mine Hill, where the volunteers from Salisbury and Fort Victoria had joined up.
‘Zouga, is that how Jameson is going to challenge Lobengula’s impi?’ The little encampment looked pathetically inadequate. There were two dozen wagons, and on the canvas tents of most of them Zouga could make out the insignia of Ralph’s transport company.
But he pointed to the comers of the laager.MoreLess
Louise rode like a man, astride and uncomplaining, and on the fifth day, unexpectedly, they came up with Jameson’s column... in camp around the skeletal headgear of Iron Mine Hill, where the volunteers from Salisbury and Fort Victoria had joined up.
‘Zouga, is that how Jameson is going to challenge Lobengula’s impi?’ The little encampment looked pathetically inadequate. There were two dozen wagons, and on the canvas tents of most of them Zouga could make out the insignia of Ralph’s transport company.
But he pointed to the comers of the laager.MoreLess
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