The Siege of Mafeking (1900)

CHAPTER I

AT SEA

R.M.S. _DUNVEGAN CASTLE_, _September 16th, 1899_.

A breeze was freshening, tufting the heaving billows with white crests and driving showers of spray and clots of foam upon the decks of the _Dunvegan_. Passengers stood in strained attitudes about the ship, fidgeting with the desire to be ill and the wish to appear comfortable--even dignified. In the end,...