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Subject: A favour from Curling's letters Mon Jan 13, 2014 3:39 pm
A favour to ask. I've lent my set of photocopies of Curling's letters to someone. Can someone check for me in the one dated 7th February the wording is in the sentence: “We fortified the stores as well as we could but men sneaked off one by one, that when it was dark, we had but 37 to defend the place.” A word or phrase is missing such that it reads properly.
impi
Posts : 2308 Join date : 2010-07-02 Age : 42
Subject: Re: A favour from Curling's letters Mon Jan 13, 2014 3:54 pm
7th feb 1879 Helpmaker (sic), Natal to Mama?
"We fortified the stores as well as we could, but men sneaked off one by one that was when it was dark, we had 37 to defend the place"
Subject: Re: A favour from Curling's letters Mon Jan 13, 2014 4:00 pm
impi Thanks but I think it's been miscopied into the book. I had photocopies of Curling's letters from the 1990s and really wanted the original wording. I'll have to wait till I get them back. Thanks anyway.
Frank Allewell
Posts : 8056 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 74 Location : Cape Town South Africa
Subject: Re: A favour from Curling's letters Mon Jan 13, 2014 5:52 pm
Lieutenant Curling wrote that: - We fortified the stores as well as we could but men sneaked off one by one, that when it was dark, we had but 37 to defend the place.
Subject: Re: A favour from Curling's letters Tue Jan 14, 2014 2:55 pm
Hi I've now seen the original page and there was a mistake in the transcription. Can anyone tell me on what page of Best and Greaves's book the Feb 7th letter appears?
Frank Allewell
Posts : 8056 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 74 Location : Cape Town South Africa
Subject: Re: A favour from Curling's letters Tue Jan 14, 2014 3:19 pm
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