3-070-520 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Transvaal War: our special artist on his way to the front, 1881. British war correspondent during the First Boer War in what is now South Africa. 'Our 'Special Artist, as a lonely traveller on horseback, ''remote, unfriended, solitary, slow," is seen making his way to the front, over those rough and hilly roads of Natal, which he traversed in his way to the Zulu campaign two years ago. He is twenty miles from the nearest posting-house or shelter, overtaken by a violent rainstorm; and we trust that the readers of this Journal, for whose entertainment he is put to such hardships, will not be unmindful of their obligations to Mr. Prior'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.