Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-28

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me, II, looking upon them Che msaat
the Arabs and theirs. in this light
find this African campaign sorry
business for France to be engaged in
IA vast and terrible government ter
rorizing into submission a horde of
half-starved fanatics, " he yawned. "all
of which is very bad-yerY bad-bah!
give me some more bOuScOussod0
We were aroused by the sudden
stoppage of the scow.
A detachment of 'Zephyrs," near
US on the right bank, scrambled
together in hollow square. A bat
TALON of Coulouglis, with hGiks and
bourfsous ripping. scuttled by US at
gallop and the Twenty Third Chas-
seurs d Antique in the front line halted
at carry on the crest OF sand
ridge. which hid the horizon from
sight; the still. hot air OF the Sahara
was suddenly peryaded with some
thing that reused us to our feet in an
instant Santander whipped out his
ever-ready sketch-book and began
blocking in the landscape and posi-
/ ton Of. the troops, while Thevenot
snatched his note book and style
graph. +"
Instantly somewhere disquietingly
| near, an event, or rather whirl of
/ events that rushed and writhed them
selves together into quivering maze
of dizzying cOmplexity, suddenly
evolved and widened like the fierce
quick openingsof some vast scroll, and
there were zigzag hurryings to and
fro and surging heayenward OF a
torrent Of noises-noises of men and
noises OF feet, noises OF horses and
noises OF arms-noises that hustled
fiercely upward above the brown mass
and closed together in the desert air
blending or joining one with another.
joining and separating, reuniting and
dividing; noises that ratified; noises
that clanked: noises that doomed. or
shrilled or Numbered. or quavered;
and one we'll known noise that at
regular intervals was dominant over
all as Of a mighty food of planks and
boards falling from some vast height
upon the earth beneath. And then
came sight Of blue-gray tremulous cur
tains-but whether OF smoke or dust
could not say tumbling and billow-
ing, bellying out with the hot tempest
breath of the bartle-demon that ragged
within, and whose outernost fringes
were torn by serrated files of flashing
steel and wavering ranks of red.
And this was all at first. / knew
we had been attacked and that behind
those boiling smoke-billows some
where and somehow, though exactly
how and where / could not tell men
Infatuated into beasts. were graphing
and struggling each man with ev-
cry sinew on the strain. honestly striv-
ing 10 kill his fellow.
And now we we're in the midst of a
hollow square OF our soldlery, yet how
we came there cannot recall though
/ emember-trivial enough as it was
that the water OF the Jeliffe made
my clothes heavy and clinging and
Observation-Disclosures this al
though a mortal fear sat upon me OF
being shot down by some of our own
frenzied soldiers. And then came
! that awful rib-cracking pressure, as,
from some outward unseen cause. the
square was thrown back upon itself
The smell of sweat of horses and men
the odor of the powder smoke, the
binding, suffocating, Supplying
clouds OF dust the horrible fear
greater than all others-of being
pushed down beneath those thousands
OF trampling feet, the terrible pitch Of
excitement that sickens and weakens,
the momentary consciousness-yan,
ishing as soon as felt-that this was
what men called war; F" and that we
were experiencing the stern reality o.
, what we had so often read.
! looked at Bah Azzoun; he was
standing at the gunwale of the scow--
somehow we were back on the seow
again-with an unloaded pistol in hi:
hand. He was watching the battle OF
the bank His nostrils quivered. ant
he shifted his feet exactly like an Elk
cited Thoroughbred. On sudden,
trooper of the Eleventh Cuirassier
2 came spinning round and round out o
the brown of the battle, gulping al
: blood. and pitched. wheeling. face
downwards into the soft ooze wher
/; the river licked at the bank, raising
FNuuN uuuDLeS III the Sdtue Us ne ulSN
: his life-breath into it and ralxing i
a into gridiron patterns as his quivering
: blue fingers closed into fists. Instant
a ly afterward came mighty rush.acros
1 the river beneath our very bows. For
S ty-odd cuirassiers burst into it, fol
{ lowed by eighty or hundred Kabyles
g / can recall just how the horse-noof
t ratified on the saucer-like cakes Of DIR.
I mud and flung them up in counties
: fragments behind them. They were
d fine sight those Kabyles with thei
5 fierce. red horses, their dazzling whit
e boWrlioaS their long thin. murderou
: rifle barrels laundering and splashin,
a past while from the whole mass @
1 them. from under the shadow of ever
{ white hdik, from every black-bearde
! lip. was rolling their war-cry; "Allah
n Allah-il- Allahm
: What long dormant recollection
, stirred in Bah AZzuun at this old bat