LOYAL BOER FARMER'S ADVENTURE.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2701, 21 April 1915, Page 4

LOYAL BOER FARMER'S ADVENTURE.

Johannesburg, Feb. 21. The Sunday Past publishes a thrilling story of the adevntures of Trooper Snyman, of the Imperial Light Horse, a despatch rider avlio, in ordinary life, is a Dutch farmer in the Orange River Colony. I Snyman had to carry three despatches for Colonel Alberts, Colonel Vanzyl, and Colonel Royston respectively. It was necessary to cross tho Vaal, and when he reached the river it was in flood. He romoved all his clothing, which he made into a. bundle and fastened to the back of his spare horse. Then he remounted his oavii liorse and started to cross the river. The spare horse was sAvept away and drowned, but Snyman, on the other animal, reached the further bank. . He rode naked through a hot day and well into a cold night, Avhen he found himself in touch Avith the rebels. This rendered it necessary to hide in the bush all night. The next morning his skin was peeling, and he was so cold that he could scarcely clamber on his -horse. I The Avhole of that day he rode through country infested with the -' enemy, and, still naked, delivered the first of his despatches at nightfall. J Then, merely stopping to ■ get a pair of trousers and a blanket, he continued his journey, and next day I delivered the other tAvo despatches, after Avhich he returned to the base.