Tough Customers.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 67, 14 January 1880, Page 2

Tough Customers.

That British officers ara by no means the “ caroet knights” some would represent them to be, may be gathered from the following clip from a letter by the Daily News special correspjndent with the army on the Zulu frontier, Mr Forbes:—“ We hare some wonderfully hard men out here in this force— men who seem to know what fatigue means. Lord Chelmsford appears able to ride for ever. His military secretary, Colonel North Crealoek, leads his own paokhorso

on his chief s long stretches on horpeback. Captain Steward, General Marshall’s brigade-major, has lived in the saddle ever since he left the ship: General Ciittord contrives to content himself with three hours sleep out of the 24 j and Colonel Buller goes on three days' ride with half a dozen biscuits, a panuakin, and a couple of ounces of coffee, without sugar. A.o iustance of dogged physical hardness came, however, under my notice the other day, that stimulated my special admiration. I was sleeping the

other night m a tent at Washbank, halfway between Sunday River and Dundee. About one o’clock I heard a voice outside that I thought I knew, asking for a drink of water. Getting out imo the moonlight, I found, alone on foot, the Hon. Guy Dawnay, attached to General Marhall’s staff. On the

previous day he had lefc Utrecht with a a earnest despa'oh from Lord Chelmsford to General Marshall- He had ridden hard the 40 miles to Duud.-e. wheu his horse was beaten, lie cmld not got another, so he started on a night tramp to find his chief, wherever he might be. When I saw him he had done 14 miles in three hours. He had his drink of water, and started anew quite ch*eril r He •Sunday Uivei by .1 iy . - l'urtii(*r on. ■> .01 flu - ... “ ill O lli • C.i 1' ..... $ 1 Mj'iicvv’t r . ; ~ 1, , :.»• gam *, taou-ra too^ore.