no BIRDS OF THE WAVE AND WOODLAND 



our ships go the sparrow goes, and as the troops march he 

 accompanies the army as a camp-follower, but finding his own 

 rations. He is established in Afghanistan, where he weiit with 

 Roberts and Stewart, and in Zululand where Evelyn Wood 

 and Duller showed him the way. Like the Roman eagles, he 

 is the ensign of victorious advance, and should I ever chance 

 to go there, I expect to find him at home, by right of arms 

 and the men, at Buluwayo. As they crossed the Cabul river 

 and the Buffalo and the Nile with our forces, claiming at once 

 from the natives privileges of conquest which our generals 

 hesitated to assert, so no doubt they have crossed the Shangani, 

 and amonof the rock-kranzes and kraals of the Matabele now 

 rear the young which, under other conditions, might have 

 lived in Covent Garden and died within sound of Bow-bells. 



