Excerpt from Things Seen: Impressions of Men, Cities, and Books
Through war and pestilence, red siege and fire,
Silent and self-contained he drew his breath;
Brave, not for show of courage - his desire
Truth, as he saw it, even to the death.
- Rudyard Kipling.
The great necessity imposed upon our England by the policy of the Afrikanders inside and out of Cape Colony has cost us many precious lives. I speak for my own set, and with no better outlook than the rest over the many hundreds of brave and brilliant and beautiful creatures who, at the especial instance of the mad and criminal old man at Pretoria, have chosen rather to surrender this good earth, and all that she gifts her children withal, than to suffer that an insolent and monstrous wrong were done upon that piece of her to whose inheritance, in all its felicity of pride and freedom, they were born. But I do not think that I speak excessively when I say that, when George Steevens died at Ladysmith, of enteric fever (which is, being translated, filth and low living), there was lost in him as fine a spirit, as rare and as completely trained a brain, and as brave a heart, as we had to show.
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