What is "elands"

Usage examples of "elands".

Two British columns had left Zeerust on October 17th, under Methuen and Von Donop, in order to sweep the surrounding country, the one working in the direction of Elands River and the other in that of Rustenburg.

A smaller siege had been going on to westward, where at Elands River another Mafeking man, Colonel Hore, had been held up by the burghers.

This stand at Brakfontein on the Elands River appears to have been one of the very finest deeds of arms of the war.

But now they can point to Elands River as proudly as the Canadians can to Paardeberg.

When the ballad-makers of Australia seek for a subject, let them turn to Elands River, for there was no finer resistance in the war.

They proved once more, as Ladybrand and Elands River had shown, that with provisions, cartridges, and brains, the smallest force can successfully hold its own if it confines itself to the defensive.

At dawn on September 22nd a half-hearted attempt was made by the commando of Erasmus to attack Elands River Station, but it was beaten back by the garrison.

The sweeping of the Roos-Senekal district being over, Plumer left his post upon the River of the Elephants, a name which, like Rhenoster, Zeekoe, Kameelfontein, Leeuw Kop, Tigerfontein, Elands River, and so many more, serves as a memorial to the great mammals which once covered the land.

One of the outlets, Elands River Poort, was guarded by a single squadron of the 17th Lancers.

Vlakfontein incident, and of the annihilation of the squadron of Lancers in the Cape, there was a serious affair at Elands Kloof, near Zastron, in the extreme south of the Orange River Colony.

The Harrismith section had been pushed as far as Tweefontein, which is nine miles west of Elands River Bridge, and here a small force was stationed to cover the workers.

The wildebeests or elands or okapis are where they thought, in the numbers and condition they estimated.

I pointed to two fat elands strolling among the trees not more than a hundred and fifty yards away.

But it is their way, or it was, before they scattered and left their ham elands He turned his attention to the pine needle.