Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-28

together hurriediy, and Rowe for the first time
| ieIt 3 thrill of dread,
The next moment the leaders of the pack
s msspt Into sight over the swell on the hill, and
Ping yelps. came the main crowd. At the sight
Of the two men the whole pack halted; then the
pointing skyward, gave vent 10 long blood
eurdling bowling. At the signal all the pack
sQnatted and howled in unison
Rowe laughed at the sight. but his laugh died
away with merries, ring. There was some
thing in the aspect of the dogs that sent his
| blood cold.
He realized suddenly what these gaunt brutes
| were The ouicas homeless dogs OF hundred
abandoned kraals. IF tamished and desper-
and caverns in the hills. Dogs OF war,
they had fought over the fallen soldiers
on the bloody field of 1sandlana, they had
| Ranbula. They had followed the wide trail Of
many a wounded wretch to SONS still pool and
n ne M him in, licking Their Jaws and airing
mesh, and now they had run up the wind on the
scent of human blood. and had found their
victims.
The two men by the power In the steady look
a time.
large yellow brute began barking in a mad
frenzied way, jerking his head from side to side
and champing his fangs until the foam dripped
rom ms iawa, The others, excited by this,
oarked themselves into the same mad fury, and
now one and then another would dash out and
plte at the stones and grass.
mere was some hing hldeous IN the rsvenous
cleaning in the yellow eyes beyond anything in
howe's experience, and he watched the narrow
ing circle with feeling of sickeninp disgust.
w hat dogs DEATH he muttered bitterly.
Suddenly one brute sprang upon RoHe's sad
Que, and in an instant score of maddened
creatures were tearing at the leather, tumblng
over each other in their blind rage, and biting
savagely ct anything within reach, until their
oodles were spattered with blood.
Rowe sprang up, staggere q moment from
dizziness in the head then, with a wild cry fell
upon the fghting mass, striking furiou ly with
his knife. The dogs opened up at his attack,
and then closed upon him, with rush that
swept him off his legs. AS he fell they crowded
upon his body. but IN such numbers that they
impeded one another. and could not make play
with their teeth.
The Zulu might have escaped had he chosen,
but instead he hurled rock At the dogs, then
springing over those near him, seized one by its
n nd legs and using it as club, swept the 9TH
ers from # the white mans body. Then pick
ing up the bowie knife, he stood over the pros
trate man, a weaponin either hand, and shouted
In Zulu HambaI' that is go" For a mo-
ment the furious pack quaied under the look
and voice OF the warrior, then they came on
again.
feathers with the iron stirrup attached, and
stood with his back to his rescuer.
The shadows OF evening heightened out, and
the grey dusk was falling, and still they kept off
dark, and the dogs would have them at an ad-
vantage; The dogs themselves seemed
to understand this. They ceased their
outcry,. and withdrew for few yards, some
lying down and painting, others licking their
wounds. and few moving round the circle. but
all with their hungry eyes fixed upon the two
from the darkening sky, and the first gust of
;he night wind moaned over the land. 1t |
brought with it The strong sweet odor of the |
avand bloom evening flower, and it brought.
too, wild clamor.
Another pack was approaching!
ITO BE CONTINUED.