Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1901 — Bullet Through His Head. [ARTICLE]

Bullet Through His Head.

An English paper prints the following extract from a letter written by an officer of unimpeachable veracity: “Yesterday we had another instance of the remarkable endurance and vitality of savage races. It is not very nice family reading, but I must tell it to you, as it seems to me to be such a really marvelous instance of endurance. Yesterday morning a kaffir was admitted into our lines with bis head lacerated most terribly. He actually walked into camp with a hole right through his head and his brain protruding through the W’ound and dried on to his forehead by the sun. He was a fearful sight. We handed him over to the doctor, to whom he afterward stated that he had walked all the way from a Boer laager about twenty miles away. He had had a quarrel with his master, a Boer on commando, w ho as a punishment had broken his thumb with a sjambok and afterward placed a revolver to the back of bis head and fired a bullet through it The native was left in a donga for dead, but after lying senseless for three days, exposed to the sun and flies by day and the cold by night, he actually walked the whole distance without food until he reached our camp. Our doctor takes it as an affront to medical knowledge that the man should fee alive and has sent him to the hospital at Standerton for examination by the medical staff there.”