14 SOLDIER AND SPORTSMAN 



Roinecks," in allusion to the red colour an English- 

 man acquired from being scorched by the sun on 

 his neck and face. Some of the sporting Boers 

 I met seemed real good fellows ; they had no 

 ill-will, and were excellent shooting companions. 

 One related how at Majuba Hill he with a few 

 other adventurous spirits climbed up the reverse 

 side of the hill just as the Boer force, believing it 

 to be impossible to put up a fight, were preparing 

 to trek. Having arrived at the top, they peered 

 over the edge of the depression where the British 

 force was camped for the night and discovered 

 that the sentries were posted in such a way that 

 they could not see over the hill. Needless to say, 

 when those Boer scouts fired a volley at the troops 

 a panic took place, and a helter-skelter down the 

 hill changed the whole feature of the operations. 

 This same man also related how, when hunting 

 elephants, he came on two lions in deadly conflict. 

 When asked to describe the fight he said : " I was 

 after ivory, not lions." 



The British Bechuanaland Border Police were 

 commanded by General Sir Fred Carrington, a 

 man who had made his name in colonial warfare. 

 He was a ereat Englishman, and a born leader of 

 men, and the natives, who had nicknames for all 

 the officers of the corps, called him The Lion. He 

 had great expansive shoulders, deep chest, sandy- 



