The Project Gutenberg eBook, Sketches of the East Africa Campaign, by Robert Valentine Dolbey

Title: Sketches of the East Africa Campaign

Author: Robert Valentine Dolbey

Release Date: December 1, 2003 [eBook #10362]

Language: English

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SKETCHES OF THE EAST AFRICA CAMPAIGN

PREFACE

The bulk of these "Sketches" were written without any thought of publication. It was my practice in "writing home" to touch upon different features of the campaign or of my daily experiences, and only when I returned to England to find that kind hands had carefully preserved these hurried letters, did it occur to me that, grouped together, they might serve to throw some light on certain aspects of the East Africa campaign, which might not find a place in a more elaborate history.

For the illustrations, I have been able to draw upon a number of German photographs which fell into our hands.

I should like to take this opportunity of thanking Mr. H.T. Montague Bell for the care and kindness with which he has grouped this collection of inco-ordinate sketches and formed it into a more or less comprehensive whole.

ROBERT V. DOLBEY,

ITALY,

February, 1918.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

THIS ARMY OF OURS

THE NAVY AND ITS WORK

LETTOW AND HIS ARMY

INTELLIGENCE

GERMAN TREATMENT OF NATIVES

GOOD FOR EVIL

THE MECHANICAL TRANSPORT

THE SURGERY OF THIS WAR

MY OPERATING THEATRE AT HANDENI

SOME AFRICAN DISEASES

HORSE-SICKNESS

THE WOUNDED FROM KISSAKI

MY OPERATING THEATRE IN MOROGORO

THE GERMAN IN PEACE AND WAR

LOOTING

SHERRY AND BITTERS

NATIVE PORTERS

THE PADRE AND HIS JOB

FOR ALL PRISONERS AND CAPTIVES

THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD

THE BIRDS OF THE AIR

BITING FLIES

NIGHT IN MOROGORO

THE WATERS OF TURIANI

SCOUTING

"HUNNISHNESS"

FROM MINDEN TO MOROGODO

A MORAL DISASTER

THE ANGEL OF MOROGORO

THE WILL TO DESTROY

DAR-ES-SALAAM

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

RHODESIANS CROSSING A GERMAN BRIDGE OVER THE PANGANI RIVER, NEAR MOMBO, WHICH THEY HAD SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION

BRITISH SHELLS EXPLODING A GERMAN AMMUNITION DUMP.

EXCITEMENT OF THE NATIVES

OUR FIRST WATER SUPPLY AT HANDENI

MY OPERATING THEATRE AT MOROGORO. TWO WOUNDED RHODESIANS AND MY TWO OPERATING-ROOM BOYS

SISTER ELIZABETH. THE GERMAN SISTER

HUNS ON TREK

AN ENEMY DETACHMENT ON TREK. MACHINE-GUN PORTERS IN FRONT

NATIVES BUILDING A BANDA

A TYPICAL STRETCH OF ROAD THROUGH