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“ At the head of the craft of ‘ special correspondents/ there is,” the 1 Globe’ remarks, “ a well known writer, rendered famous by his exploits during the Franco-German and Busso-Turkish Wars, whose brilliancy of style is not less conspicuous than his extraordinary physicial strength and courage. His more recent wanderings in search of exciting nows began with a rapid flight to Cyprus. The field there proving rather sterile, for there is nothing sensational in the process of gradually creating order out of chaos, the island was dubbed a 1 fiasco/ and our knight-errant looked about for more promising ground. It presented itself almost immediately in Afghanistan, whither the wanderer proceeded in hot haste. He casually dropped in, however, at Simla, although this involved a considerable deflection from the shortest road to the frontier, but the halt did not prevent his presence at Peshawur at the outbreak of hostilities. Here he was comfortably circumstanced at last, with plenty of fresh excitement every day, so long as the Afghans showed a hold front. But life grew wearisome amid the monotony of Jellalabad, and he accordingly paid a flying visit to Lahore. Backwards and forwards he then oscillated between that city and the front, until the dearth of news became unbearable, when some bird of the air whispered to him that there might be stirring work in Burmah, and he accordingly made a ‘ bee line’ for Mandalay, a distance of fully 2000 miles, by rail, sea, and river. Having' only a few days at his disposal, he lost no time in obtaining an interview with King Thee Baw, which passed off without any exhibition by the latter of the fatal spear of King Tharawaddi, This being accomplished, the pilgrim started off again for Lahore, for the purpose of 1 being within hail of the frontier on the renewal of the Afghan campaign. Scarcely had he reached the Punjaub capital, however, when the terrible news of the Isandula disaster made him turn longing eyes towards South Alrica. The Cape is not very accessible from Lahore, as no steamers go there direct either from Bombay or Calcutta. But what arc such trifling difficulties to a restless ‘ special’ ? Nothing at all in the case in question. For within a very few days the wanderer was off en route to Kurrachee, whence a steamer would convey him to Aden, and another carry him thence to Zululand. A glance at the map will show that this gentleman has managed to get through a vast deal of ‘ globe-trotting’ within a brief period, besides contributing largely to the English Press, and embarking in various controversies in India.” Mr Forbes is, of course, the “ special” referred to.

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

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Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 156, 21 June 1879, Page 3

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Tapeke kupu
445

Untitled Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 156, 21 June 1879, Page 3

Untitled Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 156, 21 June 1879, Page 3

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