Well, the next day we made a little more, and the seas were only gigantic, not titanic. The oil was holding out better, too, as we struck a better grade in some of our tanks, and I saw that we had a fighting chance of making it. By night I felt almost confident we could, and I really slept some. Next day I expected to make land, but, of course, had little idea how far I might really be from my reckoning. Nevertheless, we sighted ---- Light about where I expected to, and laid a course from there into the harbor. It was a rather thick, foggy day, and pretty soon I noted a cunning little rock or two, dead ahead, where they didn't by any means belong. So I rather hurriedly arrested further progress, took soundings, and bearings of different landmarks, and found that we were some twenty-five miles from our reckoning--so far, in fact, as to have picked up the next light-house instead of the one we thought. After this 'twas plain sailing, though I had never been into that port before. Made it about noon, took possession of a convenient mooring-buoy inside the breakwater--which buoy I found out later was sacred to the French flag-ship or somebody like that--called on our Admiral there, and was among friends. Yes, by heck, I let 'em buy me a drink at the club--I needed it! Had oil enough left for just about an hour more! Copyright, Atlantic Monthly, April, 1918. * * * * * While the great campaigns were being waged on the western fronts, there was being carried on in a more remote part of the world a series of operations which involved as hard fighting and as many difficulties as were encountered in any other field of action. The campaigns in East Africa which resulted in driving the Germans from their former colonies are described in the following narrative. EAST AFRICA JAN CHRISTIAAN SMUTS [Sidenote: Learned South Africa in The Boer War.] In the strenuous days of the Boer War I learned to know my South Africa from the Indian to the Atlantic Ocean as one learns a country only under the searching test of war. I came to know the unfrequented paths, the trackless parts of the bush, the wastes where people do not often go. I believe it is generally admitted that I covered more country than any other commander in the field on either side--and my movement was not always in the direction of the enemy! [Sidenote: Obtaining water on the Kalahari Desert.]