Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...cleared away, I saw him rolling over and over in the dusty road, writhing in his death agony, for my shot had entered the neck and gone down into his chest. I stepped on one side and gave him my second barrel behind the ear, when dark blood rushed from his nostrils, a slight tremor passed over his limbs, and all was still. The man-eater was dead, and his victims avenged." After nine years of soldiering and sport in India Leveson returned to England in 1853. When the war with Russia broke out he at once offered his services to the Turkish Government, and obtained a command in the Light Cavalry under Osman Pasha, who was then advancing with an army into the Danubian Provinces. Here "the Old Shekarry" performed one of the most extraordinary feats in his varied career. He had gone out on a reconnaissance and, in company with his friend Fritz von Roth, a young Hungarian, was cut off by the Cossacks. A desperate ride for life followed. "The Old Shekarry's" deadly rifle had already accounted for four of the enemy, but they still swooped on, and what followed I will let the hero himself describe: "We breathed our horses until the clattering of hoofs behind us again intimated the near approach of the enemy, and again bullets whistled around us. My rifle killed when their smooth-bored carbines were useless, so I turned in the saddle and with another right and left brought down a couple of the leading horses, which, however, scarcely checked the rush, for they evidently thought that we must now fall into their hands. I therefore exchanged my unloaded rifle for the sixshooter carried by Fritz, and prepared to execute my former manoeuvre, by pretending to be wounded, and, pulling up my horse I flung myself at full length...
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