BYColonel G. HAMILTON-BROWNE“MAORI BROWNE”Late Commandant in Colonial Forces Author of“With the Lost Legion in New Zealand”“A Lost Legionary in South Africa” LONDONT. WERNER LAURIE LTD.CLIFFORD’S INN THIS SKEIN OF YARNSIS DEDICATED TOMY OLD FRIEND AND COMRADE IN ARMSDURING 1877-78-79 THOMAS F. KYNNERSLEY of Leighton, Co. SalopD.L., J.P. and Late Capt. and Staff Officerin Lonsdale’s Horse […]

Rev. H.C. Adams Chapter One. School was just over. The boys belonging to Arlingford College poured out into the playing fields, the juniors tumbling over one another in haste and confusion, as though the premises were on fire behind them; the seniors strolling leisurely out, or gathering in small groups near the school door, to […]

CHARLES H. EDEN A Tale of the Land of the Tsulu and Cetewayo Letter CHARLES H. EDEN Finnish version. Helsinki, Finnish Literature Society printing house, 1880. CONTENT:  1. My Plant Brother 2. The King’s Messenger 3. The Autocrat in His Council 4. Warned and Equipped 5. In the Camp 6. Unfortunate Exercise 7. After the Tragedy 8. Expression in the Haystacks 9. Nomteba, […]

Bertram Mitford Chapter One. Crossing the Durban Bar. The steamship Amatikulu was drawing near the end of her voyage. A fresh breeze was ploughing up the blue waves of the Indian Ocean, hurling off their crests in white, foamy masses, casting showers of salt spray upon the wet decks of the vessel as she plunged her nose […]

Bertram Mitford “Forging the Blades” Chapter One. The Tragedy. The river swirled on through the heat, the sweltering, fever-breathing heat. The long, deep reach made but scant murmur, save where the boughs of a luxuriant vegetation dipped on its surface. Above, on either hand, masses of rolling verdure, tall forest trees, undergrowth in rich profusion, […]

The adventures of Umslopooaas and Galaz The story of the Zulu caravans Letter H. RIDER HAGGARD Translated from English to Finnish OEN [OE Nyman] (Previous Part Published Under the Title “Black Hero”) Helsinki, Publishing Company Kirja, 1922. CONTENT:     I. Mopo goes in search of the Killer.   II. Mopo reveals himself.  III. The murder of the Boers.   IV. The […]

Bertram Mitford Prologue. A weight had fallen from him—the weight of a lifetime; the galling, hopeless, demoralising weight which had paralysed his energies, sterilised his brain, and, in the case of a subject less clear-sighted, would have brought him down to drink or suicide, possibly both. And now it had fallen from him. The man […]

Bertram Mitford Prologue. “You were astonished when I refused your piece of gold, Nkose. But were you to offer me your waggon loaded up with just such shining gold pieces, even that would not coax this broad spear out of my possession.” (Nkose: literally “chief”—a title of civility which the innate courtesy of the Zulu moves […]

John Buchan CONTENT:      I. A Man on Kirkcaple Beach.    II. In Search of Fortune.   III. Blaauwildebeestefontein.    IV. My Journey to the Winter Pasture.     V. Mr. Wardlaw Predicts Coming Disasters.    VI. The Drum at Sunset.   VII. Captain Arcoll Tells His Story. VIII  . I See His Excellency John Laputa Again.    IX. The Trading Post at Umvelos.     X. I Go in Search of Treasure.    XI. Rooirand Cave.   XII. […]

W.H.G. Kingston Chapter One. The Trader in Zululand. Zululand is a wild region of mountain ranges, deep valleys and gorges, roaring torrents, rapidly flowing rivers, plains covered with mimosa bushes, meadows where cattle pasture and grow fat, and level plateaux extending for many miles across it, several hundred feet above the level of the ocean; […]