This train ran on the line between Pietermaritzburg and Colenso.
UNSHIPPING STORES AT DURBAN FOR GENERAL BULLER'S ARMY.
[Dec. 11-12, 1899.
Once in the streets of Pretoria he steered by the stars to where he conjectured the Delagoa Bay railway to lie. He struck a railway—it seemed to be the right one—and walked along it till he passed a station; then he stopped and hid, determined to board a passing train in motion. Readers may guess the pluck and coolness required for such an undertaking. A train came in sight at last; stopped at the station; started and thundered past the fugitive. "I hurled myself at the trucks," writes Mr. Churchill, "clutched at something, missed, clutched again, missed again, grasped some sort of handhold, was swung off my feet—my toes bumping on the line—and with a struggle seated myself on the couplings of the fifth truck." The truck was laden with empty coal sacks, and under these Mr. Churchill buried himself and slept.
J. Nash, R.I.] [From a sketch by Winston Churchill.
MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL SCALING THE WALL OF THE PRISON AT PRETORIA.
J. Nash, R.I.] [From a sketch by Winston Churchill.
MR. CHURCHILL BOARDING A GOODS TRAIN.
Dec. 12, 1899-Jan. 6, 1900.] Mr. Churchill Rejoins Buller.