[11] The President's favourite psalm was said to be the 144th, which he
always believed was written to apply specially to the Boers.
[12] Short whip.
[13] Major Heaney is an American, and was one of the pioneers who
accompanied Dr. Jameson to Mashonaland in 1891.
[14] Mr. Richard Solomon, then Attorney-General, now Sir Richard
Solomon.
CHAPTER VI
PREPARATIONS FOR WAR--MAFEKING, AND DEPARTURE THEREFROM
"War seldom enters, but where wealth allures."
DRYDEN.
In August we left Cape Town, and I went to Bulawayo, where I spent two
months. Gordon[15] had been appointed A.D.C. to Colonel Baden-Powell,
and during this time was with his chief on the western borders. The
latter was engaged in raising two regiments of irregular horse, which
were later known as the Protectorate Regiments, and were recruited
principally from the district between Mafeking and Bulawayo. At the
latter town was also another English lady, Mrs. Godley, whose husband
was second in command of one of these regiments. It can easily be
imagined that there was little else discussed then but warlike subjects,
and these were two dreary and anxious months. We had little reliable
news; the local newspapers had no special cables, and only published
rumours that were current in the town.
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