in had died a hero’s death, fighting till
. Jast shot was expended.
Nityana, a Matabele witness, later told
> secretary of Cecil Rhodes that when
ly seven men remained, they stood back
back and sang the British National
athem.
Another Matabele chief told how these
jite men died. “They took off their hats
d sang a chant. They fought with little
ns (revolvers) and some at last put them
their own heads, but there were no shots
‘t and they died by Matabele spears. But
e Induna (Major Wilson) was bewitched.
e was the last to die. We shot him with
< rifles and still he fought. I will never
sht the whites again. They are not afraid
die. They are men.”
During the second Matabele campaign,
e intrepid little American scout, Burn-
im, was in it again, and with one other
de into the heart of the camp of M’Limo,
e chief high priest whose word was law

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with the Matabele. M Limo claimed to be
invincible. He claimed ability to make
the warriors impervious to British bullets.

Burnham rode straight to M’Limo’s cave
in the Matoppas, and put a bullet through
the bloodthirsty priest’s heart, dispatching
a man who had never spared either man,
woman or child in his fierce hatred of the
“white intruder.” And in this way, Fred
Burnham was largely instrumental in bring-
ing to a speedy conclusion what might have
proved another protracted war, for with
the death of M’Limo the warriors dispersed.

Returning to America, Fred Burnham
joined the Klondike gold rush of 1898. He
never found his El Dorado there.

Colonel Roosevelt invited Burnham to
join his rough riders for the Spanish-
American campaign, but by the time Burn-
ham received the message the war was over.

Then came the Boer war in South
Africa, and the “old warhorse” cocked his
ears and frisked his tail.

“Boss” KNEw His VALUE

A cable reached him. It read:

“Lord Roberts appoints you on his per-
sonal staff as Chief of Scouts. If you ac-
cept, come at once, quickest possible way.”

Within an hour, Burnham was on his
way.

All that he did there is epic.

Chief Scout Burnham blew up bridges
single-handed. He was taken prisoner and
escaped. He was dangerously wounded
and invalided to England.

Then honours began to shower upon him.
The commission of Major, the Distinguished
Service Order from the hands of King
Edward the Seventh, grants of land from
Cecil Rhodes, and a personal letter from
Lord Roberts himself.

Major Burnham’s majority in the British
Army was confirmed by King Edward him-
self, and the Major was permitted to retain
his rank without having to renounce his
American citizenship.

He travelled the world over in search of
fame and fortune. He found fame in
South Africa, but strangely enough he had
to come back to his own doorstep before he
found fortune, for it was through California
oil that Dame Fortune smiled on him, in his
discovery and development of the Dom-
inguez Oilfields, which he still controls.

Like all small men in stature—and I can
speak from the experience of one of these—
Major Burnham finds his lack of inches a
source of annoyance and almost embarrass
ment at times. Never, of course, did he
feel that way when matching his wits and
his brawn, and his experience, in the field
against Indians, Matabele, Boer or bandit,
but in later years, when he would be the
guest of honour at some gathering of boy
scouts or of young men, who were waiting
in keen expectation to see in person Ameri-
ca’s greatest scout it was different. With
a broad grin on his face he described his
feelings to the writer.

“Tt was like going to meet a famous boy-
hood hero, who, according to boyhood
dreams and storybook ideas of heroes,
should be in every way a superman, at least
six feet four inches tall, then to be patted

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