"HARD MEN."

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3327, 21 August 1879, Page 2

" HARD MEN."

' The Daily NewV special correspondent witu the army oa the Zulu frontier, Mr Forbes, writes—" We have some wonderfully, hard men put J^a iijicft^oree; ined wlxo seem irot td-'kno'W wnat fatigue means. .Lord , Chelinsfqrd appeanuable to ride'for e'veW ' (lfti WtaFtS&uj, Colonel North. Creaiock leads his own pack horse bn»his'ohi«f J» ff<tajiJ siretJjes on horseback. Oap&ih Steward, General Marshall's bfigade major, has livad in the saddle ever sinoe he left ..the ship. -General Clifford contrives^ t$ cfntent himself with" three hours sleejt jout of the I twenty.fpar i ; ( .,and; fiolonel 3imer .goes on. a three .cjays*, ride; .with,, jhalf a dozen' bisciMs, a paunikih, arid a cotiple of ounces of -coffee without sugar. An instance of dogged phjsical v ,^ardfM»sß came, • however', under' faf) notice ''Hb.o other day - tliat( stimulated' ttiy special admiration. I was sleeping the other night in a tent at Washbank, half way between Supday Kiver, and Dundee, About one o'clock I heard a voice oatsitljrv : that il'thought I knejv, askitig-for i^rfaVcf of water. Getting out into the moonCi|ht " I found alone and on foot the Hon. Guy Dawnay, attached to General Marshall ■ staff. On the previous day he had left Utrecht with an urgent despatch from Lord Chelmsford 'to General Marshall,.: ?*[• ,had ridden ha/d:the 4a'miles.to Dijoafee, when his horse waa beaten. He^cpuld-, not get another, so he started on atnight Ctramp to' find hia'^fehief, W^herever^he might be. Whfcn I saw him he had done 14 miles in three' hours. He had -his drink of water and started anew quite cheerily. He .reached Sunday Biter by daylight', twelve, miles further on, rfnd finally, still on foot, ran into his enjef twelve miles nearer r Lady smith somewhere about breakfast "time^/stilP iwpe though footsore;" .•:•/■:* Ti