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First“Any fool can get into a hole. ” --O/d Chinese Proverb‘;/f left to you, for detente make spades. “’--Bdgege MaximIfeltlonely, andnotalittle sad, as I stood on the bankof the river near Duffer’s Drift and watched the reddust haze, raised by the southward departing columnin the distance, turn slowly into gold as it hung in theafternoon sunlight. It was just three o’clock, and hereI was on the banks of the Silliaasvogel river, left behindby my column with a party of fifty NCOS andmen to hold the drift, It was an important ford, becauseit was the only one across which wheeledtraffic could pass for some miles up or down the river.(see Map 1)<strong>The</strong> river was a sluggish stream, not now in flood,crawling along at the very bottom of its bed betweensteep banks which were almost vertical, or at any\rate too steep for wagons anywhere except at thedrift itself. <strong>The</strong> banks from the river edge to theirtops and some distance outwards, were covered with)7419ilL.
UDUOFFHR’SUDUNIFT.GENERAL PLAN.Map 1(1) SILLIAASVOGEL RIVER (2) DRIFT(3) REGRETTABLE MOUNTAIN (4) WASCHOUT HILL(5) INCIOENTAMSIA (6) KRAAL8—,.
Page 2: FMFRP 12-33The DefenseofDuffer’sD
Page 6 and 7: ABOUTTHE AUTHORMajor General Sir Er
Page 8 and 9: BACKGROUNDINFORMATION(THE BOER WAR)
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True, we were not captured, and had
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sixth!!)ream“Sweet are the uses o
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advantages of the proposal.I resist
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any degree hampered by a fear of hi
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scooped out a little, or a shelf cu
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dream; all we could do meanwhile wa
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and a coat there peeping over the t
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musketry in the distance, and saw a
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