The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-29

ing" says an English newspaper cor
respondent, raise him at once to
high rank among the scouts of this
or any other country Burnhams
eyes are the wonder of all beholders.
They are small, rowing blue eyes. Wo-
men fall in love with them. Cecil
Rhodes says they can see right through
mountain when a Matabele is; ON the
other side of it. Another correspondent
declares the sinewy little mamie is
only five feet four in height-to be a
veritable pocket edition of Hercules.
Then he adds NOSE impressively: 'And
withal he is modest and truthful"
which is something wonderful and I'M
accountable in South Africa.
Burnham's greatest feat was the
shooting of NJ limo under circumstances
that would have done credit to Davy
Crockett. NJ limo was the great witch
doctor of the Matabele. He started the
rebellion, saying that he could turn
away the bullets from Uncle Hiram
Maxim's patent music box into water
if his fellow countrymen would only
bring him presents in return for the
favor. His throne was in a cave which
was the center of pilgrimages for the
natives far ard near. Burnham deter
mined to kill him. The British officers
laughed at his attempt as fools
! Grand" But he enlisted the assistance
of sturdy young Englishmdn named
Armstrong and they started for
M'limo's cave. The hills were fairly
swarming with natives, aud Burnham
and Armstrong Travelled by night and
slept by day. They led their horses. so
as to make as little noise as possible,
and also to keep them fresh, as they
knew after NJ limo had been killed it
would depend upon their horses
whether they would be able to return
| to the lager or not.
When they arrived in sight of the
cave they found hundreds of natives
about, but were Disguised to find that
M'limo himself was not there, being two
or three miles away. They sent the
negro servant whom they had brought
with them to tell the witch 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 in case he
PLAYED them false. But in doing so they
ran plump into body of Kaffirs. Had
the Kaffirs been Matabele the two
scouts would have been killed then and
there. Burnham pretended they were
in great fear of M'limo and wanted to
suaded the Matabele to leave the scouts
alone until Mlimo 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 Burnham saw that if he shot
M'Imo the whole crowd of natives
would be on them in a minute. After
going through a long orgy, M'limo in
vited them into a cave alone and told
the natives to clear out. No sooner
were they in the cave than Durham
sent a bullet through M'limo's skull.
I'VE didn't wait to lay the body
out" says Burnham, ''but we ran for
our horses with all our might. The mig
gers followed and shot at US repeat
eddy, 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 as high
as their heads, and it is a wonder to
me that they didn't break their necks
and ours into the bargain" Though the
killing of NJ limo did not have the effect
that was expected. this detracts none
from Burnham's daredevil cleverness.-
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