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FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR.

and ought to be abandoned for something more efficacious. For the purpose of war is to kill, not merely to waste ammunition.

THE DOCUMENT IN EVIDENCE.
THE DOCUMENT IN EVIDENCE.

If I could get the management of one of those campaigns, I would know what to do, for I have studied the Boer. He values the Bible above every other thing. The most delicious edible in South Africa is "biltong." You will have seen it mentioned in Olive Schreiner's books. It is what our plains-