PREFACE 



It is with strangely mingled feelings of sorrow and 

 pride, that, by request, I present this book : sorrow, 

 of such a kind that only those can know who, out 

 of this world's time, have lost a rare and great 

 friendship— the Author is no longer with us to 

 pubUsh these pages himself; pride, in this, the 

 work of my best friend, which cannot help but give 

 a glimpse of his charming mind and characteristic 

 * thoroughness.' Captain Cortlandt Gordon Mac- 

 kenzie, best known to his friends, in the regiment 

 and the fields of sport, as ' Corty,' succumbed to 

 enteric fever at De Aar, in Cape.Colony, on January 

 24, 1900. 



He was sent out to South Africa in July 1899, 

 when war with the Transvaal Government looked 

 imminent, to buy horses for the British Army. A 

 wise selection, for his heart was in his work, and 



