Show A 1JAXD OF HEROES Everybody with a heart appreciates bravery and every natural pulse beats quicker at the sight or story of human heroism The English soldiers who fell before the hordes of the Matabeles displayed those qualities that only dwell in the bosoms of the worlds conquerors and though they were swept down before the overwhelming force of members and perished from the earth the history of their deeds will live and cause a glow of enthusiasm enthusi-asm in the souls of men wherever the tale of their last struggle is told The following tribute to their desperate desper-ate valor is given by one of the enemy an officer in the Matabele regiment who witnessed the stubborn fight by a handful against a host I Machasha induna of the Insuka regiment tell you these things We were 6000 men against your 34 They rode into the track and linked their I horses in a ring and commenced a heavy fire upon us and our men fell fast and thick We opened a fire upon them and killed all their horses Then i I they took to cover behind their horses bodies and killed us just like grass We tried to rush them Twice we tried but failed After a time they did not fire so much and we thought their ammunition was getting short Then just as we were preparing to rush again they all stood up They took off their hats and sang We were so amazed to sea men singing in the face of death we knew not what to do At last we rushed You white men dont fight like men but like devils They shot us until the last cartridge and most of them shot themselves with that But those who had none left just covered up their eyes and died without a sound Child of a white man your people know how to fight and how to die We killed all the 34 But they killed us like grass |