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SPORT AND WAR. 
CHAP. XVII. 
but when he arrived at the stream where he was killed 
he was met and surrounded by a fresh party of Kafirs 
and overpowered in the long grass, not a single man 
escaping. His men fought most bravely so long as 
their ammunition lasted, and a large number of Kafirs 
were killed. 
For months no tidings could be obtained as to 
what had befallen the party, but at last it becoming 
known that the chief, Maccomo, had got possession 
of Lieutenant Bailie’s Bible, he was bribed for a con¬ 
sideration to part with it; and on the flyleaf was found 
written a statement that he was then surrounded and 
his ammunition failing. 
We searched and found the remains in a decomposed 
state, Bailie’s being recognisable only from the long¬ 
hair and black whiskers that had fallen on each side of 
the skeleton. His father was a captain in the same 
battalion, and was with me at the time we buried the 
remains of these poor fellows. The graves are now 
marked by green bushes growing over them—a fit¬ 
ting memorial to a soldier’s grave. 6 Where the tree 
falls there let it lie,’ is my idea of what should be. 
This is rather a long digression, but I record it in 
honour of the dead and to the memory of a friend. 
From the stream at Bailie’s Grave the road or path 
led by the base of a mountain called Taban Doda, or 
the Men’s Mountain. It was literally so on this day. 
