... French had made a copious capture of laagers, live stock, and stores of all kinds but how about the capture the Sedan-ing so to speak of the Boer force of at least 10,000 men who had held the lines of Magersfontein so long against Lord Methuen and blocked him ...

... through to Lady- smith, and this time are full of hope and confidence. From the camp to the field of operations, broadly speaking, the Monte Cristo range of kopjes, of which I send you a sketch, is a ride of ten or twelve miles. It is the enemy's left ...

... prove on the marshal's return and with his permission, provided always that the request be decently made. They had been speaking in French and meanwhile removing their tunics. The staff officer had even drawn off his riding boots. Do you understand asked ...

... still standing just below the 1 L I lighthouse, supposed to have been the residence of Druid priests or hermits. Old records speak of the islands as insula sacra. The proximity of the Druidical standing stones of Callernish certainly lends probability ...

... moments, when, for instance, they are surrounded by their own family, or are in the society of those with whom they generally speak more or less openly. The Secret Correspondent is in close touch with the families and friends of those ministers and diplomatists ...

... detours into the de ert necessitated by the present frontier, which was agreed upon between England and France in 1898. Roughly speaking, we have relinquished about half the region included in the arc round Sokoto, and on the Lake Chad end of the irontier a ...

... that hearkens to these words shall never taste of death.' This introduction is important, as it shows us that Jesus was speaking to St. Thomas, and, probably, to another disciple, whom we are unable to identify owing to the state of the MS. There are ...

... intercepted. The earlier order prescribes methods suitable to the conditions then before Nelson, when the respective forces were, speaking roughly, eight British to ten French or, possibly, ten British to eighteen French and Spaniards. These methods will not be ...

... followed. On the stroke of midnight the debate automatically stood adjourned, and what Mr. Fell, at the time on his legs speaking as a colonial, described as a sad evening, came to an end. This episode has its significance beyond its immediate bearings ...

... EXAMINING THE CHIEF MEN AS TO THEIR PART IN THE MURDER OF POLICE rrom a photograph by a Correspondent. Colonel Royston, who speaks the Zulu language like a native, is here shown examining the indunas (chief men) as to what part they took in the recent ...

... the non-tourist iL/tf#Vr season, and now it has got its way. Great Western and London and South-Weslern Railways Generally speaking there is nothing of the nature ol a union or working agreement be- tween these two companies. There is, or rather was, keen ...

... Minories The chart also shows the more or less precise point where Tripoli touches Egyptian territory. Solium is not strictly speaking a harbour but is the next best anchorage after Massa Tobruk, or Marsa Tobruk as the chart gives it. 44 Longmans' Gazetteer ...