COLENEL BURNABY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 84, 12 March 1885, Page 3

COLENEL BURNABY.

j| Colonel Burnaby's expedition to the j Soudan A^aß quite m keeping with .Iris |j/cWrafetery F,o,r some, reason or ochor ■jii^ wpiicatiou to. t |iiiii the force'was.rcifusea at liea<lq«arft!is, tiiough Lord rWplseluy was. anxious for his assistance. , "Notiuu<> dauqtud,- ho\yc.Ycv,b'y his repulse, iiie suddenly auuounccd that he was '■ .going ,to tha, X^nsYAal, ,and . \yp,iild not .'.b& l)i\cki'or some months, aud when he ;left aridiappeared suddenly on the banks (••of tin} Nile/aß'a volunteer ho: one had j I the ieaac' Mea .of bis 1 movements^ Inthc j «aihe whyiie had previoasly joined Gra-:-'ihain atSuakim,audwaß severely wounded -j ! in| the face' at the battle ot ill Teb. Kil j t|iere.was«no little flaw' nihis generons l{ ' aud'rjigh-spiiitad character, it was per- , ' haps t^athe was ' v " little , too fond of j ; lighting for fighting's sake, "anil seoiiieil ! i.ratb.eivtM take a pride m his prowess, not, perhaps, . sufficiently reflecting on ; the fearful nature of. »var,aud thi«°calaiu-: i ities it produces. . Perhaps his reck-; iessness of life, .was due partially to th c< knowledge that he suffered from, incur-, 1 .able heart-disease, and longed rp»thor to I' <J«e. on thn battle lield than m inglorious oase.in his-,afm-cbair. l ,At any' rate, he; has gained his, de6irej' and '.sleeps now] ioved and mourned m a soldier's gravcj i at Abuklea. . i