Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 802
one day—the first day ofthis years summer—he started out with a smallparty of horsemen to select a spot for a camp. Noone supposed that there were any hostile nativesnear by, but when a place had been chosen for thecamp, and the men were about to mount their horsesto ride away, a body of Zulus, who… … YOUNG LOUIS NAPOLEON. (FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKENSHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEATH.) savages were upon him. He tried to run, but itwas too late, and turning toward his assailants, hereceived nineteen spear-wounds,—all in front,—and fell dead. And so there lay, in a field of wild grass andreeds, in a land of…
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