The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-30

KAFFIRS ARE QUEER.
They Scarcely Mind Being Shot
Themselves, and Are Not Even Gu
riOus When others Are Shot.

rIOus W men Otners Are ShOt.
Mafekng War Correspondence of the Pail
Mall Gazette.
One of the most striking things that
has come under my observation during
the siege is the utter callousness of the
Kaffir when one of his nation-possibly
his brother-has been bowled over and il
in urgent need of his assistance. The
first instance | saw of this was on an
occasion when l visited the chemists shop
10 make some purchases. AS l stood by
The counter a a6-pound shell entered, and
there was sound ike tAe-eFd- ef-al4
things The shop was packed tight with
the choking smoke of the shells burst
ing charge, and in the darkness we heard
the rending of timber and the crashing
of bottles and other articles all around.
The chemist fell under the sheHer of the
safe, and was saved | tumbled to the
floor. and was alive and well when some
men made their way into the wreck to
collect the killed and wounded whom they
believed to be inside. We got out to the
front as quickly as possible but were
not there half minute before a second
shell fell on The market square and its
scatter completed the destruction Of the
shop.
Before the second shell came observed
a black boy with some friends of his
surveying the ruin, and when it had swept
ny 1 saw tIt poor lei oW, cut N Two Out
still living. lying on tha read. His COM
panions took to their heels and left us
to cover up the poor shel-to.n body with
a cloth. few days afterward / was
standing in the square talking. to two
mounted Cape policemen. Some Beers
about q mile out on tie veldt saw US
and began 20 snipe us. We escaped but
The center one of three Kafirs who were
crossing the road was struck by a bullet
and fell. His two companions regarded
him for a moment as he lay on the
ground. and coolly walked off without
even inquiring where he had been hit
When l got to the wounded man / found
thar the ball had struck him on the leg
and had passed through an artery. He
showed absolute indifference, and never
| spoke a word as ! applied The tourniquet
| anu prepared him for carriage to the
| hospital on a stretcher Again, four or
| a black working party were badly wound
| ed by shell that got among them. and
when white helpers arrived they found
! the uninjured ones calmly smoking their
| pipes. as Indifferent to the injured as #
the latter did not exist. a few days ago
five boys" were shetering beside a
| house, when one of them was killed by a
! splinter His companions quietly walk
| ed away l could give dozens of i'm
stances such as these to show how far
below the brute creation are these semi
saVages.
My servant had his left arm blown off
az the elbow by a piece of shell. / had
| him brought to hospital. where the need
| ful was done for him by the surgeons,
| and in three days he was back smiling
| with the stump tied up in bandages and
an expression Of pride on his face An
| other negro had a bullet through the
| brain, and struck the left side of the
| skull. but finding that part TOO hard,
| changed its course and ran around 20 the
back OF the head. where 1t lodged II
| you think that that mans death was In
Simultaneous you are wrong. He lived
| for a fortnight to the hour almost. and
| during that time occasionally showed
some signs Of slight consciousness Among
the negroes cases of this kind have crop
| ped up such would throw all the the
! cries of college of surgeons out of gear.
/ But we have a while man here who Is
almost as grea, a marvel as that Kah1r.
| A Mapser bullet went in at one Of his
! temples and QUE at the other, and ten
| days after his admission to the hospital
found him discharged as cured and
| playing Billiards at my hotel He told
me that beyond feeling a slight headache
| AZ night he suffered no Inconvenience as a
result OF the wound. II l have the bad
| fortune TO he hit before we get out of
this, my ambition is to be endowed with
the aggressive vitality Of the black"