THOROUGHLY ENGLISH.

Temuka Leader, Issue 282, 26 August 1880, Page 3

THOROUGHLY ENGLISH.

Perhaps few stories of battle so illustriate, what we are pleased to consider the true English spirit and way of doing things as the little indicent at a recondisance before the battle of Ulindi, of which Lord William Beresford was hero. The English were almost led into a, terrible trap, and dislovered k the danger only just in time. They turned to retreat and the’Zulus poured in a volley which brought down the gallant grey horse of a mounted infantry-man ; I.is rider fell head-foremost. The correspondent of the Standard was where there was most to been seen, ‘ I thought both man and horse were killed at first,” he says, “ but the former soon struggled, to bis feet, with his face covered with blood, and dazed with his fall. Lord William Beresford, seeing what had happened, pulled np, and, in the face of advancing hosts and yelling savages within easy range, quietly trotted back, and told the man to mount behind him. With a cool courage scarcely second to Lord William’s, the man refused, noble fellow that he was, preferring the certain sacrifice ofliis own life to the probability of destroying his preserver. The reply was admirably terse and telling. The savages swarmed closer and closer, bullets rrtiled around them ; the two who lingered were almost within reach of the assegais, and Lord William returned, ‘Get up, or I’ll punch your head !” The man obeyed, and preserver and preserved escaped,”.