PRISONERS IN A CAVE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 4 June 1907, Page 4

PRISONERS IN A CAVE.

iMCxir I'AKTV'S ADYKVITKIC i\ r ■KASI'ToLAXI). A remarkable incident occurred in llasutolnml recently, writes a Durban correspondent. A picnic party decided to make a trip into the liasuto country, which they entered by a pass known as l.ih'l Ingiibo, on the Natal frontier, and encamped for the night in a cave in the Drakensberg. Proceeding oil their journey the following day they asked a native to direct them to a cave ill which thev could take their miil-day meal. The liasuto appears to have given information of their presence, for towards evening the party was intercepted by a number of natives, the old man who appeared to be in charge earning a gun. The Europeans were then arrested, accused of being "white men's spes." and taken to a place which had the appearance of a mountain stronghold beneath an overhanging cliff. Here the vUit<<rs' horses were turn-'d astray, and the headman, telling tlieni ;h;t they vvoidd no! lie allowed to re- ■-: Her .Vi.cl -igniiiei! thai thev would

!■ IV',' to (-•!!(i:i;r \w:h;>ui their horses. :'!i:l wouM hi\v to firry their V.'tev a li'-jhi -ui-nt under surveillanee 'm a caw il»- i-a-nto, maintaining a u ; f.u tli-ir captives, 1 lie iVI \* mad-' i!i"ir ]iy me:U\s of a .-M'ntagein. iir whj.-ii i!icy were assisted by their iJa-iitn gnid". who helped them ;o cipuiro lh" h"i>e■■ and led them back to the pa>s by whi-li iliey had entered. After a fin-ions ride in the darkness, the precipitous mituiv of the country l-'ading to -everal cx.'itiiig adventures, tile parly vai-lwd tin' Natal Mile early ill tile nicniinir oi'mv their escape, tlior«!l;;ly -feni. :i»(! ii!in:'r\e(l.