A Difficulty in the Way of Rapid Marching in South Africa : Searching for Water. 1900.

For Sale is the Front Page removed from "The Graphic, July 14th, 1900," showing a Drawing by Frank Dadd, R.I., from a Photograph by D. Grey, Kimberley, showing "A Difficulty in the Way of Rapid Marching in South Africa :  Searching for Water."

"A march of one hour and a half brought us to Buck Reef Farm, on the River Maritsani, where a bad drift had to be crossed.  One waggon overset in crossing it.  The bed of the river was of frank sand, but by digging we got water of an ugly colour, not very pleasant to taste.  Major Goold-Adams has since told us that we might have found pools a mile to our left.  Still, it was water.  The animals were watered from buckets, or in troughs backed by sheets of galvanised iron and dug across the river bed.  Poor beasts! They considered that the day's most important ceremony was being slurred ;  the mules complained in their most piercing whine.  No beast is so pathetic as a complaining mule."- Extract from letter from Mr. John Stuart to the Morning Post.


Condition is Very Good.