I have been a lone sentry many nights now in this distant outpost, and, like a single plover seeking out the flock, I could utter his weird, wild cry of loneliness. Love is surely the strongest motive in our lives, and ah! it is cruel, and cold, and barren without any of it.... Yet I carry on, though sometimes losing control of wariness and pitching among the far-off fields of dream-land in search of the old home ... then back to this lone, wild beat as before. Is it an untamed spirit beating its life out because it has not the saving faculty of control? or is it lost for a time on unbeaten tracks, out of the course that it was intended to keep? * * * * * The virtue of life is not in learning to get what you want, but in learning to do without what you want; and a soldier may have to do without everything. A motto is no good if it is only an ornament on the wall. If we live up to it, then only does it become worth while. * * * * * There is one thing greater than strength that will carry one far, and that is endurance. * * * * * [Sidenote: UNDERLYING SADNESS] It is the fate of youth, in simple trustfulness, to venture forth on the broad highway of life a dreaming idealist; and to return, if the wars go against him, with deep-cut scars and bowed head. He knows that there are plans made otherwise than his, and that they will remain unalterable, while he must break his spirit to change, and self-denial, and humbleness. There is something of bitterness in the struggle, but it is that bitterness which makes for deeper experience and ultimate strength, though underlain with haunting sadness. INDEX Aden, 14 Aeroplanes, 29, 77, 114 African sounds, 31 Africa’s vastness, 8, 139 Ambushed patrol, 26, 28 Ammunition abandoned, 127, 132 Animals dying, 76; exhausted, 91 Ants, 167, 222 Armour-plate tests, 111 Army, a mixed, 65 Aruscha road, 70, 74 Askaris surrender, 151 Bagomayo, 124 Baluchis, 66, 85, 165 Bay of Biscay, 6 Bayonet charge, 110, 188 Bees, 222 Behobeho, 166 Belgian Force, 124 Beves, Gen., 164 Big game, 202 Bird life in East Africa, 206-207 Bird migration, north-bound, 10 Birds collected, 209-215 Birds of special interest, 216 Boat-hawking vendors, 9 Bridges destroyed, 104, 124 Bridges, repairing, 83, 122 Brits, Gen., mounted troops, 118 Buck jump, great, 89 Buffalo, 48, 92, 203 Buiko, delayed at, 95 Bukoba, 20, 22 Bukubuku, large camp at, 130 Bush foils decisive combat, 139 Bush-war difficulties, 29, 138, 184 Camp routine, 36 Camp shelters, 141 Cape Town, rest at, 171 Casualties, 165, 190, 194 Casualties at Kahe, 84 Central railway, marching on, 103 Central railway falls, 124 Character and command, 233 Character, impulses of, 230 Clifford strikes, 58 Climate of intense heat, 34, 114 Coaling, 9