Keywords: Thure de Thulstrup - H. Rider Haggard - Maiwa's Revenge - Fire, you scoundrels.png wikitable <big>This is the archival version of File Thure de Thulstrup - H Rider Haggard - Maiwa's_Revenge_- Fire you scoundrels jpg Due to a bug in the thumbnailing software large PNGs do not display at the moment; however this is an exceedingly rare image and without this information would be lost to JPEG artefacts It should not under any circumstances be deleted This is the archival version of the cleaned up version; for the original scan see File Thure de Thulstrup - H Rider Haggard - Maiwa's_Revenge_- Fire you scoundrels original scan png</big> Illustration from H Rider Haggard's Maiwa's Revenge Chapter VII by Thure de Thulstrup The scene shows Allan Quatermain ordering the men to fire after getting them to wait until the most opportune moment Now they are going to begin I thought to myself and I was not far wrong for in another minute the body of men divided into three companies each about five hundred strong and heralded by a running fire charged at us on three sides Our men were now all well under cover and the fire did us no harm I mounted on a rock so as to command a view of as much of the koppie and plain as possible and yelled to our men to reserve their fire till I gave the word and then to shoot low and load as quickly as possible I knew that like all natives they were sure to be execrable shots and that they were armed with weapons made out of old gas-pipes so the only chance of doing execution was to let the enemy get right on to us On they came with a rush They were within eighty yards now and as they drew near the point of attack I observed that they closed their ranks which was so much the better for us Shall we not fire my father sung out the captain No ”confound you I answered Sixty yards ” fifty ” forty ” thirty Fire you scoundrels I yelled setting the example by letting off both barrels of my elephant gun into the thickest part of the company opposite to me Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol LXXVII No 459 26 p 351 1888-08 Creator Thure de Thulstrup 1930 File Thure de Thulstrup - H Rider Haggard - Maiwa's_Revenge_- Fire you scoundrels jpg Restored JPEG File Thure de Thulstrup - H Rider Haggard - Maiwa's_Revenge_- Fire you scoundrels png Restored Archival PNG File Thure de Thulstrup - H Rider Haggard - Maiwa's_Revenge_- Fire you scoundrels original scan png Original scan PNG Minor cleanup levels adjustment crop Henry Rider Haggard Maiwa's RevengeThure de Thulstrup Allan Quatermain 1888 |