The Gevangen Poort of the Hague, an antique but mean building of brown brick and commonplace aspect, still stands in one of the most public parts of the city.
On the 19th February, within less than a fortnight from the explosion of the conspiracy, the eldest son of Barneveld was lodged in the Gevangen Poort or state prison of the Hague.
The worthy Boshof, who knew my face well, was hurried off to Komati Poort to examine all and sundry people "with red hair" travelling towards the frontier.
The next day I was reported captured at Komati Poort dressed as a Transvaal policeman.
To prolong it we were shunted on to a siding for eighteen hours either at Komati Poort or the station beyond it.
POORT A gap, breaking a range of hills; literally gate.
They had bagged a brace of these charming little antelopes, and were now passing through a poort or pass to another range of hills.
So soon as evening comes, I will ride on, tie up my horse near the poort yonder, and creep about till I find what has been done, and where Baas Guy is.
The Lisbon government required the extension to Komati Poort to be completed in eight months (five of which were in the rainy season), an impossible stipulation.
It was approaching sunset as we crossed Commando Nek, which is divided from Crocodile Poort by a spur of mountain, and looked over the Witwatersberg rolling south to the Rand and the feverish life of cities.
This Poort is fine by daylight, but still not more than an ordinary pass; but in the witching half-light it dominated the mind like a wild dream.
The Natal line was continued from Charlestown to join the trunk line at Elandsfontein, and the Delagoa Bay line from Komati Poort to Pretoria, with a little branch to Barberton and the beginnings of a branch to the Selati gold-fields.
The rivers unite a mile away, and the cleft of the Poort to which the twin streams hurried stood out as black as ink in the moonlight.
Above the poort near the springs are many Korannas; some spoke very good English, and gave me much information respecting the locality.
The last lion shot in this district was in the above-named poort in 1869.
Makapan's poort is a lofty mountain, a complete honeycomb of caves, where much fighting has taken place between the Boers and the chief Makapan.
And so the steersman sailed away, while Ramiro, filled with memories, reflections, and hopes, walked quietly through the Morsch Poort into the good city of Leyden.
The Komati Poort Bridge had been threatened, and the cauldron of Boer machination was simmering portentously in the neighbourhood of Machadodorp.
It encamped in a pass with a poort on its front, consisting of high hills.
He had been kept in ignorance of the real state of the political outlook, and was allowed to proceed to Komati Poort to learn the truth regarding Kruger's flight for himself.
The Eleventh Division subsequently returned to Pretoria, Lord Kitchener remaining at Komati Poortwith Lieutenant Legget, Assistant Director of Railways.
I could see the devils skipping down the poort on his heels, in high old glee.
A poort is a pass or defile as distinct from a kloof, which is a mere terminable ravine.
The poort narrows very much, and the cliffs are not nearly so high.
So when I got out of the poort at the bottom of the turret-head mountain--you remember that steep little slope where your horse turned a somersault--I put on pace a little so as to get a start.
Tis the real old poort wine, zor, that yür vather gied en--the dahmned old pagan!
The horrors of last February perpetrated in the Gevangen Poort of 'S Graven Hage still cause many a rough cheek to blanch at their recollection.
The shadow of the terrible tragedy--the concluding acts of which were being enacted day by day in the Gevangen Poort of 'S Graven Hage--had even touched the distant city of Haarlem with its gloom.
I landed at Scheveningen a week ago, and for five days have hung about the Gevangen Poort of 'S Graven Hage trying to get speech with my brother.
By the time the rocks which marked the entrance to the poortcame into view it was already night.
Klip Poort is bad to go through at night Ja, it is bad, very bad.
Klip Poort is bad to go through at night, very bad.
After about a mile, the kloof into which this poort debouched suddenly narrowed and turned left-handed at right angles to our course.
Have you ever noticed that even the Kaffirs in the kraal a few miles beyond the poort never enter here?
Our entrance to the mountains was effected through a narrow and extremely difficult poort (pass), strewn with huge boulders and overgrown with brush and underwood that often barred the way and rendered Stoppages frequent.
The captured cattle which we had hoped to find at the fort had been sent away to Komati Poort a few days before our attack and according to their "books" it must have numbered about 4,000 heads.
The end of the struggle was ignominious, as many a burgher had feared; and to this day I pity the men who, at Hector's Spruit, had to go to Komati Poort much against their will.
I heard in confidence from one of your party, when they joined me a week back, that you had gone on a mad-brained adventure to try and blow up the Komati-poort bridge.
By sunrise we were on the divide between the poort and the nex' valley, jest about where the road led over the neck ahead of the troops.
Then I'm darned if the Colonel didn't walk his horse round the turn in the road till he came to the kloof, and seed the track wind up through the narrer poort up to the ridge beyond, with me on his right far above him.
None of the enemy can get inter the poort without being seen.
At the time of De Wet's crossing at Israel's Poort Hamilton had only reached Sannah's Post, nor was Knox marching on the Nek.
Viljoen, who arrived a few weeks later after a circuitous journey from Komati Poort through the low veld.
The crick-crack of Botha's Mausers at Blood River Poort echoed throughout South Africa.
The centre north and south of Pienaar's Poort was the strongest section of the line, and for this reason and for another it was held by comparatively small numbers.
After the conclusion of the Komati Poort operations Buller returned to England.
These he sent under Koetzee to Komati Poort and left to arrange their own destiny; and with the rest, which numbered 4,000 burghers, he broke away in two directions, himself with B.
From Waterval Onder onwards to Koomati Poort not a solitary sniper ventured to molest us.
It was to everybody's extreme surprise and delight that at noon on Thursday we received sudden orders to leave Koomati Poort at once, and to leave it not on foot but by rail.
Canon Knox Little, whose praise as a preacher is in all the churches, found on reaching Koomati Poort that his strength was being overstrained, and so at once returned to the sacred duties of his English Canonry.
No one for a moment imagined when we reached Koomati Poort that we had come only to the half-way house of our toils and travels, and that there still lay ahead of us another twelve months' cruel task.
On reaching the poort again we found his spoor, freshly made since we had been there, and he had walked right along through the gorge without stopping again, and gone into the kloof beyond.
A breeze had risen since morning, and as we approached the hills it grew stronger: in the poort itself it was far too strong for our purpose--the wind coming through the narrow opening like a forced draught.
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