Chapter III: Part II: I. the Début of the Lost Legion in Natal 215

II. A QUEER CARD 232

III. A CONVERSION THAT FAILED 257

IV. JACK ASHORE IN 1871 265

V. THE CONVERSION OF MIKE O'LEARY 275

VI. BUSHED 283

VII. THE NON-COM.'S REVENGE 293

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

T. F. KYNNERSLEY OF LEIGHTON SALOP, CAPT. AND
S.O. OF L.H., 1879 _Frontispiece_

REWI FIGHTING CHIEF OF THE WAIKATOS _to face page_ 20

GATEWAY TO MAORI KIANGA " 56

A MAORI GIRL " 80

YARN SPINNING IN SOUTH AFRICA " 214

TE TARATA, THE WHITE TERRACE, ROTOMAHANA " 192

THE CONVERSION OF MIKE O'LEARY " 280

THE NEGLECTED SOLDIER

Fame is but a fleeting shadow,
Glory but an empty name;
Spite of all that I have gone through,
'Tis, I find, a losing game:

Without interest, without money,
Nothing can a soldier gain;
Though he be the sole survivor
Of a host of comrades slain:

What avail these glitt'ring honours,
Which a queen laid on my breast;
Though I've sought them from my childhood,
Would I'd fallen with the rest:

Then my heart had not been broken
Life had fled without a sigh;
Hunger presses--I am fainting--
Ought a soldier thus to die?
THE OLD SHEKARRY.

CAMP-FIRE YARNS OF THE LOST LEGION