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Film Zulu Dawn quote: “Excuse me, my Lord, there's something I must convey to you. I rode along the track down to Rorke's Drift. The sky above is red with fire. Your orders my Lord? Do we move to the drift?”
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Posts : 2558 Join date : 2009-04-06 Age : 58 Location : UK
Subject: Re: Cleft Stick Mon Aug 22, 2011 7:49 pm
Dave. According to a site found on the web. The cleft stick was carried by Zulu messengers with the message attached to the cleft stick, well that what it says.
Chard1879
Posts : 1261 Join date : 2010-04-12
Subject: Re: Cleft Stick Mon Aug 22, 2011 11:54 pm
John. Sounds a bit like that program." Call my bluff"
littlehand
Posts : 7086 Join date : 2009-04-24 Age : 52 Location : Down South.
Subject: Re: Cleft Stick Tue Aug 23, 2011 12:18 am
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] ZULU & CLEFT STICK A Zulu courier running, carrying a message in a cleft stick.
Sorry Chard it's " True"
Guest Guest
Subject: Re: Cleft Stick Tue Aug 23, 2011 12:40 am
From "The Graphic", 10 May 1879:
“We are far beyond the land of mail carts and all such civilized luxuries, so the mails are carried by native runners, who take the letters in a bag slung over the shoulder, and important despatches they place in a cleft stick, which is carried in the hand. They run the whole way, and accomplish enormous distances with amazing speed and certainty, and frequently over country where it would be almost impossible even for a horse to travel.”
Petty Officer Tom
littlehand
Posts : 7086 Join date : 2009-04-24 Age : 52 Location : Down South.
Subject: Re: Cleft Stick Tue Aug 23, 2011 12:37 pm
Nice one Tom.
Dave
Posts : 1605 Join date : 2009-09-21
Subject: Re: Cleft Stick Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:04 pm
Littlehand, Tom thanks a lot. I was starting to doubt it.
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