February 7th was a repetition of the 6th, except that the gun on Doorn Kloof paid slightly more attention to our position.
With this end in view he proposed to begin constructing a railway from Honey Nest Kloof to Jacobsdal, to be extended eventually to Bloemfontein after the arrival of the 6th division.
On the afternoon of November 2nd, telegraphic communication between Colenso and Ladysmith was cut off by the enemy, and a large Boer commando, having occupied the high ground near Grobelaars Kloof (map No.
Watson, commanding the 1st Suffolk regiment at Kloof camp, who had frequently reconnoitred Grassy Hill in company with General French, had from the first expressed his belief that he could capture it with his battalion.
Colonel Verner, ascertained that the Boers were in occupation of Honey Nest Kloof station (map No.
His intercepting line ran north as far as Kloof camp.
To divert attention from this movement, the whole of the enemy's western flank was bombarded by twelve guns disposed from Kloof camp to Porter's Hill, whilst a section R.
In the evening the 1st Essex relieved the 1st Suffolk at Kloof camp, the latter battalion being sent first to Rensburg, and subsequently to the lines of communication to be re-officered.
Once, in a kloof not far from the Letaba, I killed a fine leopard, bringing him down with a single shot from a rocky shelf almost on the top of Colin.
I saw quite clear the red kloofon the far side, where the collar was hid.
Once Laputa checked me with his hand as I was going to speak, and in silence we crossed the kloof of a little stream.
I shall keep the turkey-expert up on the top of Groen Kloof all to-night, in case Brother tries to break back that way!
The giant outcrop of volcanic rock which is known as Minie Kloof rises, with that directness peculiar to the vast South African table-land, sheer from a prairie as level as a billiard-table.
As it is essential that the pass over Minie Kloof should be kept clear pending the arrival of the aforementioned details, the G.
The first farm lay in a small kloof right against the hillside, and the approach was so masked that the little party of scouts rode to within two hundred yards of its whitewashed front without as they thought declaring themselves.
The one will stand bleak and exposed upon a dreary plain, the other will nestle coyly behind a grove of pointed gum-trees in some kloof or gully.
And the brigadier had every cause for anxiety, for the under-features of Minie Kloof could swallow a thousand men, and still leave a mocking enemy in possession of the salients.
Almost at the same moment the helio from the summit of Minie Kloof called us up.
The enemy retired over Minie Kloof and halted at a farm on the far side of the pass.
Gaily it caught the rising efforts of the sun, and threw to brigadier and staff the welcome news that the summit of Minie Kloof was clear.
The two hours which Hans had to wait before he believed Katrine would come to thekloof passed very slowly.
Then we must lead the horses some distance before we ride away, and we must ride northwards, away from the kloof near which we were taken this morning.
But, I'm going down into the thick of the kloof this time.
He recalled the incident in the kloof when his friend had fired straight at this man, and but for his timely interruption and that of Edala would certainly have shot him dead.
We'll take the next kloof down, then sweep round for home.
Four bucks to four guns out of one kloof isn't altogether rotten.
There ought to be enough to keep all hands lively to-day, we haven't hunted this kloof for half a year.
So the pair started off once more by a circuitous way, to reach the bottom of the kloof where they should conceal themselves.
I'll tell Ramasam to put up lunch, and it had better be taken down to Bees' Nest Kloof by one o'clock.
You know where de leopard live, in de kloof on de yonder side de berg?
Well, dey come to de kloof an' dey come to de rock, an' dere was de house where de leopard live.
Den you take him along to de kloof, an' in de kloof you take him along to de great big rock at de fur end, an' under de rock you show him de leopard's house.
Every kloofwas scoured, every Kafir stad and kraal turned inside out, and the half of them burned.
But when they came to the beautiful kloof they were amazed at the work of the storm.
And when they came to the kloof they saw that all the Burgher had said was even less than true.
On the next day the kloof widened out, and they came forth into a most wonderful plain girt round with steep cliffs, and all overgrown with grass and trees.
As he came to the kloof he was afraid of something in front of him.
The infant (which I called Matamo, from the name of the Bechuana village which I had seen destroyed) proved strong and healthy and we both reached Hakkluyt's Kloofsafe and sound.
There was no sign of life on the part of my guests, as I rolled out at early dawn and went down to the waterhole in the kloof for a splash.
Our excitement was intense, as we threaded the thickness of some bushy kloof by narrow game paths known to our guide and lit upon in the darkness with the unerring instinct of the savage.
Even though Kloof's oversight of the stowaway had wrecked the expedition, and though Kloof would probably be executed in due time, common humanity dictated succoring him.
Their purpose was to bring the woundedKloof ashore.
Crowds of people ran up the Lion's Hill, and to the Kloof Road.
He had entered the kloof not far behind him, and had kept him in view.
Whereby it will be seen that Harley Greenoak's advice to the other two concerned, to keep silence as to the nature of the Slaang Kloof mystery, had been rigidly adhered to.
A small runlet here trickled down the kloofin a chain of water-holes.
One form of sport was to gain a point overlooking this or that bushy kloof about an hour before sundown and sit still, waiting till the bush-bucks began to move.
Several bodies of Kafirs, they reported, were massed in a shallow bushy kloof which ran up to the road ahead.
Accordingly, he had pretended to go and hunt in a contrary direction, but had soon slipped round, so soon indeed as almost to reach Slaang Kloof first.
A bushy kloof fell away on their left front, its upper end nearly touching the road by about fifty yards.
The mystery of Slaang Kloof is cleared up," answered the latter, laconically.
Greenoak thinks your uncle got him here on purpose to try and clear up that Slaang Kloof mystery.
Right before you in the depth you see the house of Mr. Bester, and there on the other side of the kloof rises Platrand, or Caesar's Hill, on which the English are making forts and sangars.
It flew just too high, fortunately, over the heads of the throng of burghers, and burst in the kloof behind them.
The troops lying in garrison there immediately retreated to Lelyhoek, a beautifully cultivated rocky kloof near to the town.
There's a kloof within walkable distance that well repays the effort.
He was helpful and agreeable during the walk; and his appreciation of everything when they descended into the green twilight of the kloof pleased the girl: she shared in his enthusiasm.
From these individuals we gathered we were off cattle-lifting, the Boers having left some in a kloof about a couple of miles south of the camp.
On the 5th, we advanced to Doornkom, getting a fine herd of cattle from a kloof on our way, and having sundry necessary bonfires, principally of oat hay.
Colonel Browne (we were all pleased to hear of his promotion this month) having received orders to withdraw from the Kloof and rejoin Clements at Hekpoort, gave the order for us to be ready to march off at dusk.
Doorn Kloof is well named; it means "the hoof of the Devil.
What took place when I rode into a small town on the Rand known as Doorn Kloof one chilly misty morning, was written in the bowl of fate.
Wending their way down a barekloof were about two hundred armed blacks and three men in European garb riding in the centre of the column.
But somehow the chain of events--the horse's footprints on the kloof road, the warning shot when the hitherto unsuspecting Huns were approaching the ambush, the mark V.
The British still lay in a semicircle extending from Slingersfontein upon the right to Kloof Camp upon the left, and the general scheme of operations continued to be an enveloping movement upon the right.
Crewe, Windham, Doran, and Scobell each answered to the call, but the young leader was a man of resource, and a long kloof up the precipitous side of the hill gave him a road to safety.
This flock was in the habit of drinking every morning at the stream which had caused so much strife, for the weather had been dry for some months, and the rivulet which sometimes ran in the dividing kloof had long since disappeared.
Rain had not fallen for nearly two years and the little brackish fountain in the kloof below, on which these Bushmen were solely dependent for water to keep body and soul together, had shrunk and shrunk until it was reduced to a mere trickle.
In dry seasons this kloof contained no water, but on the side which had been assigned to Stephanus there was a small spring situated in a rocky depression which was filled with scrubby bush.
This kloof is about eight miles long, and the cattle were hardly able to stagger down it to the drinking place.
Elandsfontein was a large farm and was naturally divided into two nearly equal parts by a deepkloof running almost right through it.
Without waiting to form a party, each one as he mounted pushed on up theKloof after the cattle, the enemy still keeping up a smart fire.
Having despatched all the mounted Fingoes to Foonah's Kloof to reconnoitre, I went with a party of infantry in an opposite direction, to see if we could strike on any spoor to guide us in our movements.
Kaffir fires on the heights above Hermanus' Kloof and Fuller's Hoek smoked till dusk, when their ruddy light became visible, and blazed brightly all night.
