CHAPTER III 



A CAPTURE 



When about eighteen days out, and after having 

 turned more east, we came close to the German 

 line of communications between their main army 

 at Turiani and their principal depot at Kimomba 

 on their Central Railway. That night we camped 

 in the bush close to the barabara (main road), 

 which we crossed at daylight next morning, to lay 

 up in some thick strrff close to the road. The 

 barabara was evidently being greatly used, and a 

 telephone ran along it. Soon after daybreak big 

 processions of porters began to pass along the 

 road towards the German camp, which must 

 have been about thirty miles ahead ; various 

 mobs of pack-donkeys, with Greeks in charge, 

 were also passing, but only an odd askari. All 

 this we watched from the bush, and then decided 

 to go round and cut the road a bit higher up and 

 try our luck at some bush-ranging. Accordingly, 

 about a mile up we left two askaris and our mules 

 in the bush, and then crept close to the road, 

 where bush and long grass ran right up to the 

 track. We struck this point on the temporary 



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