The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-04
WAS WITH
JAMESON
J. D. Harries Is Now In
Honolulu.
is A SOUTH AFRICAN HERO
Wears a British Order for Bravery
and Fought in the
Boer War.

seen more OF the world and of life than
most men do In all their allotted term
OF three score years and ten. Mr.. Har-
rics came 20 Honolulu on the schooner
Rosamoud yesterday. and ne proposes
TO settle In Honolulu provided he finds
the Islands TO his liking.
For the past ten years and more Mr.
Harries has been a wanderer on the
face Of the globe. and what he has not
seen and done can scarcely be worth
-.eine and. doing. For the past five
years ne has been tn South Africa, and
he was one Of the famous Jameson
raiders. was member OF the Mashono-
land mounted police. and wears the Dis
tluEulshed Service Order-the highest
honor an English soldier can win save
the Victoria Cross-for gallantry dur
ing the great Matabele war In 1897. This
order. n plain silver medal. was pinned
on his breast by Queen Victoria her
self and Is cherished by him above
all the other mementoes OF his adven-
turous career. During the height OF the
Trausvaal war he was member OF the
south African mounted police and was
present and took an active part In the
battles 81 Dundee and Glencoe. on his
body he has i've wounds. one OF which,
received IN the jameson raid, nearly
cost him his life.
"A expected n ever I got into hands
q the Beers" said Mr.. Harries last
evening. they would hang me off hand.
for I was under sentence OF death for
ms share In the Jameson business.
was with DIR. jameson all through that
row. and was captured with him and
Imprisoned. and finally sentenced to be-
hanged. They afterwards pardoned all
OF as, and anyway they would not have
dared to hang me. for I am an Am
Urican citizen. and while / could not
get into communication with our consul
down there at the time. he had his eye
on me. and II they had attempted 20
hang me there would have been trouble.
Anyway. I'd have died with my boots
on. III bet on that.
"A was far up I'm the north about the
time % the Matabele outbreak north of
Salisbury. I was trading among the
Naiirs. and had been almost up 10 the
White Nile. nearly twenty-five hun
dred miles into the very heart OF Afrl-
ca. ! had learned 20 speak and under
stand native language. OF course, and
I heard them say that they were to rise
and what house each party was 20 at
4
Tor Salisbury and n was none too soon
for the word OF the outbreak came just
~ I got o. n place Of safety. That was
an exciting time. / can tell you. They
barriCaded that town faster than I ever
saw anything fortified before. Why
\ they even made barricades out Of can
ned beef and they strung barbed wires
all around the town. l volunteered &c
GO Or aid Co n place TO the south
where the Seventh Hussars. two battal'
| Ions 81 them. were stationed, and I had
| hardly time 90 get out OF town befor,
my horse was shot from under me.
| dropped into the brush mighty quick
\ then fer days and days I crawled ovei
| the Vcldt ON my hands and knees.
/ was shot at time and time again, bu
after many zigzags and going a round
/ about way I got TO the camp of the
I soldiers and let them know OF the trOu
I BILE. We had long siege with the
I ulggors I went into the mounted polio
and served with them for a long tim'
/ during all the outbreak.
\ 1T was during that trouble that I go
The -. s. O. I did not do much. W,
were surrounded by niggers, and
gave my horse 90 "A officer. There wer,
7. only six % us got out alive. Some Eel
low has written n poem about II, but
have forgotten his name. II was a pref
N ty night all through. Afterwards W.
went Co England and they gave US tn
N ID. 81. -. Queen Victoria pinned 10 OF
\ my tunic herself. I am the only Am
\ eriCan that wears ~.
II During the Transvaal war I nearl.
met my death I had been wounded II
one % the sklrmishcs with the Beers
and on top OF that I got the fever. an
they put me I'm the hospital "A dotto
came along and said there was no hop
Tor me. Tut there was, and out Of tn
I f1 - nj n
died. and was the lucky one.
4 have been farther into the hear
~ Africa than almost any white mar
went out trading with simply crow
~ native boys. and my camp outfit. w
were after gold dust and ivory and os
triCh feathers. I was gone so Ions
nearly two years and I'm all that tim
never n white face 20 be seen. that
b almost forgot how TO speak Englisf
And NJ for malo and such things I ha
none % g."
Mr.. ITarries lie n tall. good looklnl
healthy young Californian. and TO loo
at him you would scarcely believe tina
he has seen so much OF the strenuous
ID side of life. In his brief career he Ia
visited nearly all OF the civilized WORT
and "a good portion or the uncivilize
portion. He left san Francisco aboJ
ten years ago. visited Victoria, Vancou
Yer and Nanaino In British Columbi;
then made his way east, went throug
tho southern States. and TO New Yorl
I. shipped there as n seaman for Liver
, pool. toured all through the Unite
] Kingdom, and pretty well through EJ
rope. Then he went on n tramp steam
: or 20 Malta. Gibraltar. the Canary II
lands. Cape Verde and st. Helena. an
= 20 70 Cape Town. Thence he Journeys
10 Lourenzo Marquee and Mozambiqu
and again back 90 London. From thei
he went by way OF the Suez Canal
india. and later 90 China and Japa'
!, returning finally TO South Africa. whei
= DO has spent the past five years In va
= ipus adventures. At Kimberly be VIZ
Identified with the De Beers Compar
Tor n time. and at Johannesburg
made and lost several fortunes
stocks
a month or so ago he returned to h
home In San Francisco. but the see
~ the fever contracted In South Afri'
were In him. and he could not star
the trade winds and the fogs. and so
decided TO come 90 the Islands.
II.
IN Berotania Tennis Club.
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