3-071-275 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketches in South Africa - General Sir Evelyn Wood reconnoitring with the 15th Hussars across the Buffalo River, 1881. First Boer War. 'Our Special Artist, Mr. Melton Prior...sends us the Illustrations now engraved of several incidents of the late campaign on the Transvaal border of Natal... General Sir Evelyn Wood, escorted by a few troopers of the 15th Hussars, is seen out upon a reconnoitring expedition, swimming across the Buffalo, the frontier river between Natal and the Wakkerstrom district of the Transvaal'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.