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SUNSHINE AND STORM IN RHODESIA
SUNSHINE AND STORM
IN
RHODESIA
BEING
A NARRATIVE OF EVENTS IN MATABELELAND
BOTH BEFORE AND DURING THE RECENT NATIVE INSURRECTION
UP TO THE DATE OF THE DISBANDMENT OF
THE BULAWAYO FIELD FORCE
BY
FREDERICK COURTENEY SELOUS
GOLD MEDALLIST OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
AUTHOR OF 'TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE,' ETC.
WITH MAP AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
ROWLAND WARD & Co., Limited
166 PICCADILLY, W.
1896
To My Wife
WHO DURING THE LAST FEW MONTHS
HAS AT ONCE BEEN
MY GREATEST ANXIETY AND MY GREATEST COMFORT
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK
PREFACE
It was during the early days of the recent insurrection thatI first thought of utilising my spare time by writing someaccount of what was taking place around me, and these roughnotes, written at odd moments during the campaign, I intendedto have sent to the Field for publication in thatjournal, in the form of a series of articles dealing entirelywith my own personal experiences. After the disbandmentof the Bulawayo Field Force, however, and my own resignationas an officer in that corps, finding that I had leisure todo so, I determined to amplify these notes, and give someaccount of every skirmish which had taken place betweenthe Colonists and the natives in Matabeleland up to the dateof the disbandment of the above-mentioned Force. To thisI add a short account of my personal experiences in thecountry during the months immediately precedi