"HARD MEN"

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 270, 22 September 1879, Page 2

"HARD MEN"

The Daily News special correspondent with the iiviny on the Zulu frontier, Mr Forbes, writes" We have some wonderfully hard men out here in this force; men who secra not to know what fatigue mem Lord Chelmsford appears able to ride for ever,. His military secretary, Colonel North Crealock, leads his own pack-horse on his chief's long stretches on horseback, Captain Steward, General Marshall's brigade major, has lived in the saddle ever since he left the ship. General Oiifford contrives to content himself with three hours sleep out of the twentyfour ; and Colonel Buller goes on a three, days' ride with half-a-dozen biscuits, a pannikin, and a couple of ounces of coffee without sugar. An i nstance of dogged physical hardness came, however, under my notice the other clay that stimulated my special admiration. I was sleeping the other night in a tent at Washbank, half way between Sunday river and Dundee. About "lie o'clock I heard a voice outside that I thought I knew, asking for a drink of water. Getting out into the moonlight I found alone and ou foot the Hon. Guy Dawnay, attached to General Marshall's staff, On the previous day he had left Utrecht with an urgent despatch from Lord Chelmsford to General Mar- ' shall. He had ridden hard the 40 miles to Dundee, when his horse was beaten. He could not get another, so he started ; on a night tramp to find his chief, where- . ever he might be When 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 rivei by daylight, twelve miles further on, and finally, still on foot, ran into his chief f ; twelve miles nearer Ladysmith somewhere 3 about breakfast time, still game though I footsore.