The Right Honourable Cecil John Rhodes a Monograph And a Reminiscence
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He once said to me that if a message came to him, when he was "going to bed, " that all Cape Town was in flames, he should still sleep. I replied, " Possibly ; but you would be organising relief in your dreams. And what is more, you would know everything that had happened when you came down to breakfast. " The objective of the pioneer march was the spot on which the town of Salisbury now stands, about three hundred miles north-west of Beira and abreast of Quillimane, a well-known Portu- guese p...ort on the western coast. This had been chosen by Rhodes as the centre from which gold prospecting could be most easily organised, and also as favouring connection with the outer world, through Beira. Lobengula was, of course, fully informed of the destination of the pioneers. About June 1890 the march commenced. For the first two hundred miles the force "worried" through a country densely covered with bush. It was anxious and difficult work. If the Matabele THE ADVANCE AND SETTLEMENT 81 warriors, held in leash by their chief, and confused by his " cross-directions, " had opposed their march, they would probably have been annihilated.
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