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J. Percy Groves. The War of the Axe; Or, Adventures in South Africa
The War of the Axe; Or, Adventures in South Africa
Table of Contents
Chapter Two
The Desert Island—A Happy Release
Chapter Three
Tom Flinders is reminded of the old saying—“The World is very small.”
Chapter Four
Mr. Weston’s Story
Chapter Five
The end of the Voyage—Table Bay—“Doth not a meeting like this, make amends!”
Chapter Six
Tom Flinders’ Home—“A friend in need Is a friend indeed!”—An Expedition proposed
Chapter Seven
The Start from Mossel Bay—On “Trek”—Outspanned—Round the Camp Fire
Chapter Eight
Tom gives the Alarm—Rifle versus Assegai—Triumph of the White Man!—“Kicking Jan” outkicks himself—A Catastrophe—Arrival at Ralfontein
Chapter Nine
Ralfontein—Captain Jamieson and his family—Business before pleasure!—The last evening at the Farm—A startling proposal
Chapter Ten
Farewell to Ralfontein
Chapter Eleven
How Tom and his friend went a-hunting; and what befell them
Chapter Twelve
Missing!—The search—How Tom was besieged in a cave—The return home
Chapter Thirteen
Two years after—Rumours of war—Good news for Tom—Mr. Weston makes an interesting proposal
Chapter Fourteen
Off to the wars!—Jamieson’s Horse—A bumptious sub—Tom’s first patrol
Chapter Fifteen
Tom receives an unexpected invitation—With the Cape Rifles—Mountain warfare—Formidable odds—The effects of shell
Chapter Sixteen
The attack on the escort—Fifty to one!—A deed of “Derrin’ do”—Arrival at the camp—Bad news
Chapter Seventeen
Fighting their battles o’er again
Chapter Eighteen
The 18th April—A Fight against terrible odds—Numbered with the slain!—The March to Block Drift
Chapter Nineteen
Out of the Frying-pan into the Fire
Chapter Twenty
An unexpected Meeting—A friendly Caffre
Chapter Twenty One
In Durance vile—The Prisoners learn their fate—A fatal Dose
Chapter Twenty Two
A Starlight Tramp
Chapter Twenty Three
Crossing the Storm Bergen—A Scene of Slaughter—Tom’s last adventure—“Out of the Wood” at last!
Chapter Twenty Four
The Last
The End
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J. Percy Groves
Published by Good Press, 2019
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“I have already stated,” began Mr. Weston, “that I was educated at Rugby, where I first became acquainted with our young friend’s father. Mat Flinders and I were both school-house boys, and we shared the same study, fagged for the same sixth-form boy, belonged to the same form, and no doubt—if the truth is to be told—were often flogged with the same birch; so we were, as a matter of course, firm allies.
“Shortly before my fourteenth birthday I was offered a midshipman’s rating on board the Thétis, a fine 36-gun frigate which had been taken from the French and purchased into the navy in 1808; and as my father—a retired rear-admiral who had served with distinction under Keppel and Rodney—was determined that I should follow in his footsteps and serve King George afloat, I bade farewell to the old school and all my chums and journeyed down to Chatham, where the frigate was ‘fitting foreign.’
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