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EXTRACTS FROM REVIEWS OF
A LOST LEGIONARY IN SOUTH AFRICA
Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net. Fully Illustrated
The Nation, 17th August 1912.--"The book is full of adventure and anecdote, and Colonel Brown's simple unaffected style is well suited to the story he tells."
Illustrated London News, 31st August 1912.--"From cover to cover the book is packed full of lively incidents, told in a quick, easy and vivid style, which holds the reader from the first page to the last... It should find many readers all the Empire over."
Evening Standard, 12th July 1912.--"A more natural writer never published a book. For strong epithet allied to pungent diction he has not his superior outside Rabelais."
Yorkshire Weekly Post, 17th August (or 10th August) 1912.-- "The new book is as good reading as the one before, which is saying a great deal for it."
Glasgow Herald, 11th July 1912.--"The book is to be commended for its real interest and exciting narrative, combined with humour and plain-speaking."
Dublin Times, 9th August 1912.--"To those who wish to know something of the life of a soldier and the kind of fighting that was done in those early days for the aggrandisement of the Empire, we can give no better advice than to procure this book. It is full of candid criticism and genuine information."
The Graphic, 27th July 1912.--"'A Lost Legionary in South Africa,' by Colonel G. Hamilton-Browne, known as Maori Browne, contains some excellent stories."
Review of Reviews, July 1912.--"A book with the right ring; mainly concerned with fighting. The author preaches with rough and ready eloquence an impromptu sermon which will amuse, arrest and convince."
Belfast News Letter, 29th August 1912.--"The book is written in the same attractive style as its predecessor, and there are many striking passages in it."
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CAMP FIRE YARNS
OF
THE LOST LEGION
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BOOKS OF TRAVEL
Demy 8vo. Cloth bindings. All fully illustrated
THROUGH INDIA AND BURMA WITH PEN AND BRUSH
By A. Hugh Fisher. 15s. net
ALONE IN WEST AFRICA
By Mary Gaunt. 15s. net
CHINA REVOLUTIONISED
By J. S. Thompson. 12s. 6d. net.
NEW ZEALAND
By Dr Max Herz. 12s. 6d. net
THE DIARY OF A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
By Stanley Portal Hyatt. 12s. 6d. net
OFF THE MAIN TRACK
By Stanley Portal Hyatt. 12s. 6d. net
WITH THE LOST LEGION IN NEW ZEALAND
By Colonel G. Hamilton-Browne ("Maori Browne"). 12s. 6d. net
A LOST LEGIONARY IN SOUTH AFRICA
By Colonel G. Hamilton-Browne ("Maori Browne"). 12s. 6d.
MY BOHEMIAN DAYS IN PARIS
By Julius M. Price. 10s. 6d. net.
WITH GUN AND GUIDE IN N. B. COLUMBIA
By T. Martindale. 10s. 6d. net
SIAM
By Pierre Loti. 7s. 6d. net.
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CAMP FIRE YARNS OF THE LOST LEGION
BY
Colonel 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"
LONDON
T. WERNER LAURIE LTD.
CLIFFORD'S INN
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[DEDICATION]
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THIS SKEIN OF YARNS
IS DEDICATED TO
MY OLD FRIEND AND COMRADE IN ARMS DURING 1877-78-79
THOMAS F. KYNNERSLEY OF LEIGHTON, CO. SALOP D.L., J.P. AND LATE CAPT. AND STAFF OFFICER IN LONSDALE'S HORSE
WHOSE FONDNESS FOR A GOOD STORY IS AS
KEEN NOW AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS
OF YORE WHEN IN BIVOUAC OR
CAMP WE USED TO
SPIN THEM
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[PREFACE]
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PREFACE
IN introducing these yarns let me state that now I am laid up on the shelf my thoughts go back to those days and nights of the veld and bush, and I frequently feel I would give all the rest of the map if I could again find myself on the open lands of the frontier with a good horse between my knees and a few score of the old boys behind me. Now I hold pen instead of carbine and revolver, but why should memories of the old days pass away? Let me fancy I sit by the camp fire again, telling yarns as we used to under the dark blue skies and blazing stars of South Africa.
Let me spin you some yarns of the Lost Legion.
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[CONTENTS]
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CONTENTS
PART I
CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE MAORI AS I KNEW HIM....1
II. HOW MATENE FAILED TO CONVERT THE LOWER WANGANUI.......53
III. HOW A SCOUT WON THE NEW ZEALAND CROSS......73
IV. A HAU HAU MARTYR.....84
V. A BRUSH WITH BUSHRANGERS......92
VI. THE SCOUT THAT FAILED.....106
VII. SOME MIRACULOUS ESCAPES I HAVE KNOWN......125
VIII. A TOUGH SWIM IN BAD COMPANY......137
IX. HELD UP BY A BUSHRANGER......146
X. ON THE SCOUT IN NEW ZEALAND......150
XI. THE COLONEL'S FIERY TOT......161
XII. LOST IN THE NEW ZEALAND BUSH......164
XIII. THE TROOPER'S REGARD FOR HIS TRUST AND HORSE........177
XIV. A GRUESOME FLUTE......182
XV. THE DOCTOR AND THE SENTRY......187
XVI. HOW KIWI SAVED HIS CLOTHES AND THE GOVERNOR LOST HIS DINNER......192
XVII. A SOUTH SEA BUBBLE.......202
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PART II
CHAPTER PACK
I. THE DEBUT OF THE LOST LEGION IN NATAL......215
II. A QUEER CARD.......232
III. A CONVERSION THAT FAILED......257
IV. JACK ASHORE IN 1871.....265
V. THE CONVERSION OF MIKE O'LEARY......275
VI. BUSHED........283
VII. THE NON-COM.'S REVENGE......293
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
T. F. KYNNERSLEY OF LEIGHTON SALOP, CAPT. AND S.O. OF L.H., 1879 . . Frontispiece
REWI FIGHTING CHIEF OF THE WAIKATOS. to face page 20
GATEWAY TO MAORI KIANGA. . . . 56
A MAORI GIRL. . . . . . 80
YARN SPINNING IN SOUTH AFRICA . . . 214
TE TARATA, THE WHITE TERRACE, ROTOMAHANA . . . 192
THE CONVERSION OF MIKE O'LEARY . . . 280
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THE NEGLECTED SOLDIER
FAME is but a fleeting shadow,
Glory but an empty name;
Spite of all that I have gone through,
'Tis, I find, a losing game.
Without interest, without money,
Nothing can a soldier gain;
Though he be the sole survivor
Of a host of comrades slain:
What avail these glitt'ring honours,
Which a queen laid on my breast;
Though I've sought them from my childhood,
Would I'd fallen with the rest.
Then my heart had not been broken
Life had fled without a sigh;
Hunger presses--I am fainting--
Ought a soldier thus to die?
THE OLD SHEKARRY.
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