Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-10-03
;NeIAND's BEST SCOUT.
Nc Ii q Fighter From Texas Engaged In
the Matabole War.


Wherever you 90 you find tho Ameri-
can, and he is never in tho rear ranks,
writes London correspondent of the
New York Press The best scout in the
Matabole war is an American, Burn
ham, Texan, who wears Texan SOM
brero and rides on Texas saddle. He
fights for the pleasure of fighting, and
will be sad when the Matabele war is
over. "His education and his natural
powers of inductive reasoning. says an
English newspaper correspondents raise
him ut once to high rank among the
scouts of this or any other country. "
Burnham's Dyes arc the wonder of all
beholders. They are small, rowing blue
eyes. Women full in love with them.
Cecil Rhodes says they can see right
through mountain when Matabole is
ON the other side of it Another CORE
spondent declares the sinewy little man
he is only feet in height-to be
veritable pocket edition Of Hercules.
Then he adds most impIessively, land
withal he is modest and truthful, "
which is something wonderful and UNI
accountable in South Africa.
Burnham greatest feat was the shoot
ing of M limo under circumstances that
would have done credit to Davy Crock
ett. NJ limo WAS the great witch doctor
of the Matabele He started tho rebel
lion, saying that he could turn away
the bullets from Uncle Hiram Maxim's
patent music box into the water If his
fellow countrymen would only bring
him presents in return for the favor.
His throne was in cave which was tho
center of pilgrimagos for the natives fur
and near. Durham determined to kill
him. The British officers laughed at his
attempt as fools errand. But he
enlisted the assistance of o sturdy young
Euglishman named Armstrong, and they
started for NJ limos cave The hills
were fairly s,yarming with natives, and
Burnhum and Armstrong Travelled by
night and slept by day. They led their
horses so MS 10 u.akr as httlc noise as
possible ana also to keep them fresh, as
they knew that after M'lin.o had leon
killed it would ocpc!d upon the If horseS
whether they would bo able to return 10
the lnagcr or not.
When they arrived in sight CT the
cave, they found hundreds CT natives
about, but wcro disgusted to find that
M'limo himself was not there, being
two or three miles away. They sent TIE
negro servant whom they had brought
with them to tell the witvii doctor that
some natives were waiting for him with
great quantities OF presents. Then, like
the good scouts they were, they moved
on some distance from the place where
they told the servant they would wait
for him, so as to be ON guard III cnse ho
played them false. But in doing so they
ran plump into body of Katfirs. Had
the Kafflrs been Matabele the two scouts
would have been killed then and there
Burnham pretended they We're i'll great
fear of M'limo and wanted to make
him presents. The katiirs persuaded
the Matabe]e to leave the scouts Glono
until ii limo came ana decided what
should be done with them. So they
started down the road from the cave to
meet M'limo. When they met him,
Burnham saw that if he shot III limo
the whole crowd Of natives would be
on them il II minute. After going
through long orgy M'limo invited
them into cave alone and ted the Ia
tives TO clear out No sooner were they
in the cave than BurhEam sent a bullet
through Nj LIMOS skull.
I'VE didn't wait to lay the body
out, " says Durham, but we ran for
our horses with all our might The mig
gers followed and shot at Us repeatedly,
but their aim was bad We put our
horses TO it for all they were worth. 1t
seemed to me that our horses jumped
over some rocks US high us their heads,
and it is wonder to me that they did
not break their necks and ours Into the
bargain. y Though the killing of M'limo
did not have the effect that was expect
ed, this detracts none from Burnham S
daredevil cleverness.