THE FIGHT FOR PIETERS HILL.

Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 87, 12 April 1902, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE FIGHT FOR PIETERS HILL.

Under tho title of " Two Years After," "Linesman," In Blockwood for February, deaofibea a visit to Pieters Hill, and recalls the stern and bloody fight which, two years ,ago, raged for four days on ite rocky slope*. The description i» one of the finest bits of battle literature "Linesman" has yob produced j*. and' we give some estreats: — "Three years ago this little- Mil of- , Pieters was nothing, only a protuberance pn Mr. 'v farm, and a shady resort for his cattle, much condemned by the lazy Kaffir herdsman for its. steepness, albeit convenient for sport, with dusky, odoriferous amaryllis, with bosom of quivering bronso 'flecked by the suffshino under the mimosas. Two years ago it was a blazing, thundering hell, the wrath of millions of devils screeching*" up and >down its terraces, and roaring terribly upon, its blasted summit ; the mimosas smoked and cracked, the red boulders split asunder, the deep kloofs hdwled miserably to one another. That was two years ago. To-day Pieters Hill is what) it is — a memory, with Memory basking in the noonday upon its great bulk, like the little pied lizards on the stones, blinking drowsily in the sunshine, but with unsaurian tears in her eyes, and with soundless trumpet calls of glory pealing in hor ears.