The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-12
ENGLAND'S BEST SCOUT.
The American Who Killed the
Great Matabele Doctor.
H + Fighter from Texas Engaged IN
South Affica-A Long Ride on Hos.
tile Soil-The Shooting Of
M'lfpno

Wherever you go you nn0 the Amer1-
can, and he is never in the rear ranks.
| The best scout in the Matabele war >
an American, Burnham, a Texan, who!!
wears a Texan sombrero and rides a,
Texas saddle. He fights for the pleas
ure of fighting. His education and his
natural powers of mductive reasoning"
says an English newspaper correspond.
ent, "raise tim at once to high rank
among the scouts of this or any other
country" Burnhem's eyes are the won
der of all behelders. They are small,
rowing, blue eyes. Women fall in love
with them. Cecil Rhodes says they can
see right through mountain when 4
Natabele is ON she-other side Of it. Ap-
other CORES pondent declares the sin
envy little men-he is only five feet
four in height-to. be a veritable pocket
edition of Hercules Then he adds,
most impressiyefy: "And withal he ia
modest and trut51fu2," which is some
South Africa
Burnllam's greatest feat was the
shooting of Min 70 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
that would have done credit to Davy
Crockett. M1imos was the great witch
doctor Of the Mat. Ebele. He started the
rebellion, saying that he could turn
away the bullets from Uncle Hiram
Maxim's patent ID nsic box into water
if his fellow cOun4Ttymen would only
bring him presents; in return for the
favor. His throne was in a cave which
was the center of lpi1grimages for the
natives far and near. Durham deter.
mined to XII him. The British officers
laughed at his at4tmpt as a "foors
Grand" BIT he enlisted the assistance
of a sturdy young Englishman named
Armstrong, and they started for
M'limo's cave The hills were fairly
swarming with natives, and Burnham
and Armstrong Travelled by night and
slept by day. They led their horses, 50
as to make as. little noise as possible,
and also to k,ep them fresh, as they
knew after M'.dme had been killed it
would depend pom their horses wheth-
er they would besable TO, return to the
lager or not.
When they Arrived in sight Of the
cave they found thumlreds Of natives
about, but were d tgusted to find that
M'limo himself WIGS mot there, being two
or three miles aw.ty. They sent the
negro servant WHOM q they had brought
with them to tell the witch doctor that
somenatives were " aiting for hing with
great quantities of presents. Then. hike
the good scouts they were, they moved
On some distance from the place where
they told the servant they would welt
for him, so as to be on guapd in case he
played them false. Butin doing sostlley |
ran plump into body Of Kaffirs. Had |
the Kafffrs been MatIbe le the two scouts |
would have been killed. then and there. |
Durham pretended they mcpein great |
fear of M1imo and wanted to1nake him
presents. The Kafirs persuaded the |
Matabele to leave the sooazxs alone until |
M'limo came and decided what should |
be done with them. So they started
down the road from the cave to meet |
M'limo. When they met him Durham
saw that if he shot M'limo the whole
crowd of natives would be on them in
a minute. After going through n
long orgy, MHmo iuEited them into "A
cave alone and told the natives to clear
put. No sooner were they in the cave
than Durham sent bullet through
Af'limo's skull.
"We didn't wait to lay the body
out" says Burnham, ''but we ran for
our horses with all ourmight- The mig.
gers followed and shot at Us repeated.
". but their aim was bad. We put our
horses to it for all they were worth.
It seemed to ME that our horses Jumped
over some rocks as high as their heads,
and IT is wonder TO me thatthey didn't
break their necl,s and ours into the bar
gain" Though the killing of M'limc
did not have the effect that was ex-
pectcd. this detracts none from Burn.
,am's daredevil cleverness.-N. Y. Press
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