Show f i SCOUT I I pome ine of His Thrilling Adventures in South in-South South Africa t IJ Pearson's Pearsons Magazine contains an interI interesting inter inter- I esting account of the remarkable exploits ex- ex of MaJ F. F B R. Burnham the eA 1 fa faI famous fa- fa I InOUS American spout scout who was called post haste to S th Africa Alrica in the early l stage stag of the Boer er war After relating 7 th the various achievements which have J t q am famous the writer tel gives 2 T Je d 41 s l s I of his adventures in his hisT t td-i. td In South Africa JJ nt the Boer lines exactly a aj I I j ull nes and was captured once I I 1 fb G vay aY in three days dars I land and River he spent an afternoon V S 'S hut while on on a b bench t eu t ji were ranged a number of Boer to officers om rs watching the movements of the Ba Bain Bush in n the distance ance The he scout with h eY at a hole hole- in the thin mud plaster y ill an anInch from the head of the 9 test Boer was likewise watching the There was only one room J the hut and when some of the Boers 1 Mst p ded to come and sit Inside the scout no n o to jump for a pile of skins In one orner and He motionless underneath one of them for two hours while ohe-of ohe J t the e Bo Boers rs sat so close that he could have touched Burnham without rising from I his seat 11 Th The Incident illustrates one of Maj it Burnhams Burnham's maxims Invisibility he says Js ts Immobility but he adds it itIs Is not e 1 easy y to remain motionless unless I you keep an eye on the man you wish to avoid When you lose sight of him y your r imagination is likely to get the the upper hand of your Judgment judgment and and your yourI I nerves to have to be in good condition I then At another time he lay two days and r two nights in an bear ant hole just big enough to keep him concealed from froma a neighboring commando He was accOmpanied accompanied ac ac- companied by one black boy laden with explosives who also had to use the same kind of shelter The diet det and the hard traveling were too much for the black boy who had been chosen for his great strength and endurance So Burnham took the guncotton guncotton gun gun- cotton with which his companion was laden and went on alone while the boy struggled back to the British lines When the Boers moved on Burnham blew up the railroad between Pretoria land and Johannesburg enabling enabling- the British Ito to capture a number of engines and cars at Johannesburg He was twelve days dayson dayse on the e expedition d living v the last four i he f days on n raw ie only Another exploit which nearly cost his life was to destroy the railroad east of Pretoria and prevent th the Boers getting the British prisoners away by train But when some distance from the line he rode Into a commando who promptly opened a very heavy upon him Not Nota a shot of the shower of bullets that followed fol- fol lowed him struck him but when he had dashed back some yards ards his horse wa shot and fell with Burnham un underneath The scout lay several hours insensible but the night was so dark that the Boers never found him and at I daybreak he recovered consciousness saw that the Boers had gone dragged himself to the railroad placed his gun guncotton cotton and blew up UD the tracks For two days and nights without food and more dead than alive with with his his wounds he lay hid then started to crawl to Pretoria Pretoria Pre Pre- toria on his hands and knees being unable unable un un- able to stand upright He was soon overtaken by br a stray British patrol and carried to Pretoria wh where re it was vas found that he had been dangerously wounded internally I |