THE DIFFICULTIES OF A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2955, 5 August 1878, Page 2

THE DIFFICULTIES OF A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

Mr Archibald Forbes, writing to the Daily News on the death of Mr MacGahan, a special correspondent of that paper, says—'.* Let me recount the physical hindrances under which MacGahan distinguished himself so brilliantly in the recent campaign; At Kischeneff, in the early part of April, he broke one of the bones of his ankle when riding a young Cossack horse belonging to Prince TsertelefF. When I met him first on the platform of the Bail way Station at Jassy, he was limping along with his ancle, enclosed in a mask of plaster of Paris. He was still lame when he started into Bulgaria with Gourko's column. At the entrance to the Hankio Pass his horse slipped up and fell on him, and the rider, attempting to rise, found that one of the small bones of the same leg was broken. Most men would hare tried to make their way back to Tirnora, and accepted the invalid condition until mended. MacGahan got himself hoisted on the top of an ammunition cart. Later in the same day the ammunition cart rolled over on him and bruised him sorely. But he struggled on indomitably till Kesanlik was reached, and then had a short spell of rest. But he was in the saddle again long ere his broken bone was properly set; and, as a fact, be never gare time properly to set it. Hather than 'be out of it,' he de-

liberately accepted the prophesied fate of being lame for life; and I have no doubt - that he died lame. He went through the campaign so great a cripple that he could not walk a mile, and when I saw him.last at Christmas time, the lameness had become chronic."

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