The owners of Lackham in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries ...

The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners
Their subsequent proceedings are thus related by Lieutenant. Rooke :—
'Wednesday, December 22nd.— At about 9 A.M. we started. Our road lay at
first over a ridge of high hills, from which we saw nothing of the ship. We
then crossed a sandy plain covered with the cactus, which severely wounded
my feet. Afterwards passed through some wooded ravines, and over an
extensive marsh intersected with brooks. Towards the evening a horseman
overtook us, who seeing the tired condition of the steward, his feet bleeding,
and also suffering from a gash on his head, received whilst landing, carried him
for about four miles, and when his road lay in a different direction, gave our
guide his gun, and a piece of silver for us.
'The night being now dark, and all of us exhausted, we stopped at a Bedouin
encampment. and asked for shelter, which after some time was granted. We had
been walking about, ten hours, and got over more than thirty miles of broken
ground, having stopped once for a few minutes to pick the berries off some
arbutus trees, being our only food since breakfast till late that night. We were
wet, coverless, and all except myself shoeless’.
'They gave us some maize-cake and milk. Seeing horses, I made them
understand that, they would be well paid if they let us have them to take us on
to Biserta that night, when they made signs that the gates were locked, but
that we should have them in the morning ‘.
'Thursday, December 23 rd At daylight we set out, but none of us could walk
from swollen feet. After a ride of about fifteen miles, sometimes fording
streams. and at others nearly up to our horse’s knees in mud, we arrived about
ten A.M., at Biserta, and went to the house of our consular agent, an Italian,
whom I immediately asked to prepare a boat for Tunis. ‘
'The boats here were all too small to send to the wreck, and for which thewind
was foul, with a fresh breeze. About 1 P.M. I started for Tunis, and
arrived about 11 P.M. at the Golleta when I landed, and sent to our Vice Consul,
who after some difficulty, owing to the port regulations, came to see me,, and
tried to pass me through the gate, but