Daily Colonist (1903-02-08) by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: British Columbia; Newspapers
Published: 1903-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

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ence, accompanied by a Tiotive hunter, a good rider and fair f^hnt, of mixed 'breed, chiefly ITottentot and r!ri(|na. with a touch perhniis; nf Bechimna. nnd a tinge, through his Oriinia ancestry, of the Boer. These mixed pooido, usually known .Ts Onpe Tioys, hove alway.s licon remarkalde for their miorting capacity. ThPv tal-e rcad'ly to horses, prndiicc ilio finest whips in South Africa—a C:\]tP iBov will drive eight nnd ten horses in hand with as little trouble ns a pair—and «ire usually good shots.

("'arrying our coals. Icarossos. pomo food, a c<)ffe(> kettle and two large wtiter hottlos fastened upon our nags, we set forth, then, on a blazing hot afternoon,

liointing for a part of the fon our right hand. Our tactics \yere, of course, to drive them from their i)Oiut nnd force them out into open ground, xvhere we could run them down in fair and niiinterrupted chase.

Tt Avas a race! rutting in spurs', wo set our willing nags <it a gallop and | Iiressed after them. .\s v.'e L'alIo])ed ■ they put on steam. .Arrived witliiii i.'!0 yar<!s. we saw that we coiild now cut the trooi> in half. The old.bull and a few cows and big calves mi'-'lit ese.api*: the rest could not. Three jiartsof j

oini'lain to governor aboiit him—j full notes, assureil me that ho would i 'deal with the case.' "

■• 141;j|—. Just discovered that 'naked siwrch' ie likely to lead to somewhat. ' Xo. 12' refused to strip, was reported,

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and yet dislike to increase his punish nieiil. I ilo wish they would remove liiiii to a lunatic asylum!"

"24,"),—. It is jierfcctl.v shocking.

W liad n few words with another and punishe<l by two days' bread

man this morning, and without any water. 'Ko. 50' was also reported

MODERN FABLES

By Georg:; Ad;. CopjrlgW 1902, by Robert Howard Russell.

the herd had b: fused, dmil'tinu

'AVe jnniiicd off our hor;-

lied ill their Iriicks con- j when we had not (Niriiig to go (ni.| faces lioniewiirds

iug up, ne <niiCKiy iiiiisin-ai iiei on. i->.> m»u ...w-wuv —, u , . . i - . .

this time tho rest of the giraffes wore warning whatever approached him from punished; but on returning to liis ( cll uenring the forest, and, lialf-hiddeu by behind, and almost split his head ojion lie sinaslicd np ail the furniture, broke ^ ■ ■ ■ •" - —' every bit of glass, and completely

reportcl to have ^^r."".'!^?:;! li^"^- ■ , . ,,

died from effects of injuries lost nigUt. '•'!"' -' ,'^'^'"' '"f"i'"''i'l to t'lO

but 1 don't think so, as nobody has been II"ine ^,■(•rel:lry lo-day re the brutoUii-

laken to tlio mortuary to-day: In «iny "'^ ellects ol tne sir ing system. 1

case, is it not awfiil'.? AVliat right have the anthoriticw to subject peaceful and well-beliavi>d men to such risks liy plaelng tliem in association with lunatics and savages?

'.lust met the de<ir old governor going

some uitervoning bush, only their heads , "''th a spade!" and necks were to be discerned. The j "'25|."»|—. Poor R-limit was over, and a lirst-ratc one It bad been.

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