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Title: The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada : a history of a splendid regiment’s origin, development and services, including a story of patriotic duties well performed in three campaigns
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Chambers, Ernest J., 1862-1925
Subjects: Canada. Army. Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada
Publisher: Toronto, E.L. Ruddy
Contributing Library: Robarts – University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ork is worthyof a place in the regimental record. He has justreturned to .South Africa as bugler in the Third Con-tingent. Bugler Williams says :— We arrived at Paardeberg drift about 6 a.m. on Sunday. After a hard nightsmarch, firing was heard just in front of where we camped, and we knew that a fightwas on quite clo.se to us. Just as we were becoming interested in a breakfast ofbiscuits and coffee, which the cooks had just placed on the fires, we were ordered toparade. This meant fight, and the idea of breakfast was gladly given up for a chanceto get at the wily one whom we had been marching after for a week or so. We weresoon at the river bank, and after securing our kits tightly around us to prevent themfrom washing away, we started to cross. I was carried o\er on the shoulders ofsome of the bigger fellows. If it had not been for this I shoukl ha\e had to stop atthe river bank, because the water was much deeper than 1 was tall, and the currentwas too strong to think of swimminj.

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BUGLER DOUGLAS F.WILLIAMS. When on the opposite bank, the companies were soon in line and extended, and we were into it almost before we knewwhere we were. We ad\anced in short rushes, taking advantage of any coverwe could see. Our company was acting support when we started, but we wereshortly brought into the firing line. All day was spent in advancing and firing.The orders came from the centre and were passed to the right and left from manto man. As I was onlv armed with a revolver, w^hich had not a long- enough raneeto be ot any use, most of my time was spent in helping wounded and passing am-munition from one man to another. By about 4.30 p.m. we had got quite close tothe enemys position, and were the furthest advanced of any of our troops, and wehad to keep pretty near the ground. The Cornwalls had moved up to withinabout 100 yards of our rear, and we heard them getting orders to fix bayonets andbe ready to rush. Bayonets were fixed, straps were tightened and we were ready. Soon

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Title: Missionary travels and researches in South Africa : including a sketch of sixteen years’ residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda, on the west coast, thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Livingstone, David, 1813-1873 Arrowsmith, John, 1790-1873, ill Need, Henry, ill Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903, ill Picken, Thomas, d. 1870, lithographer Livingstone, David, 1813-1873, inscriber. DSI Vavasseur, Mrs., fl. 1857, former owner. DSI Thesiger, Wilfred, 1910- former owner. DSI Moffat, Robert, 1795-1883, annotator. DSI Larkins, J., binder. DSI Howell, Marmaduke G., former owner. DSI Cooke, Robert, former owner. DSI Day & Son., lithographer T. & R. Annan, photographer. DSI William Clowes and Sons, printer St. Leonards School, former owner. DSI Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI
Subjects: Livingstone, David, 1813-1873 Missions
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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uch constant exertiondisturbs them in their nap. They prefer to remain by day in adrowsy yawning state, and, though their eyes are open, theytake little notice of things at a distance. The males utter aloud succession of snorting grunts, which may be heard a mileoff. The canoe in which I was, in passing over a wounded one,elicited a distinct grunting, though the animal lay entirelyunder water. The young, when very little, take their stand on the neck ofthe dam, and the small head, rising above the large, comessoonest to the surface. The dam, knowing the more urgentneed of her calf, comes more frequently to the surface when itis in her care. But in the rivers of Londa, where they aremuch in danger of being shot, even the hippopotamus gains witby experience; for while those in the Zambesi put up theirheads openly to blow, those referred to keep their noses amongwater-plants and breathe so quietly that one would not dream oftheir existence in the river, except by footprints on the banks.

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Chap. XIV. MODE OF SPENDING THE DAY. 243 CHAPTEE XIV. Increasing beauty of the country — Mode of spending the day — The peopleand the falls of Gonye — A Makololo foray — A second prevented, audcaptives delivered up — Politeness and liberality of the people — Therains — Present of oxen — The fugitive Barotse — Sekobinyaues mis-government — Bee-eaters and other birds — Fresh-water sponges — Cur-rent — Death from a lions bite at Libonta — Continued kindness —Arrangements for spending the night during the journey — Cooking andwashing — Abundance of animal life — Different species of birds — Water-fowl — Egyptian geese — Alligators — Narrow escape of one of my men — Superstitious feelings respecting the alligator — Large game — Themost vulnerable spot — Gun medicine — A Sunday — Birds of song —Depravity; its treatment — Wild fruits — Green pigeons — Shoals of fish — Hippopotami. 30th November, 1853.—At Gonye Falls. No rain

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Image from page 138 of “The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada : a history of a splendid regiment’s origin, development and services, including a story of patriotic duties well performed in three campaigns” (1901) – Sundays River South Africa

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