As to this there was a moment of doubt, once.

It was when he was out on his last pirating expedition in the Matabele country.

The cable shouted out that he had gone unarmed, to visit a party of hostile chiefs.

It was true, too; and this dare-devil thing came near fetching another indiscretion out of the poet laureate.

It would have been too bad, for when the facts were all in, it turned out that there was a lady along, too, and she also was unarmed.
In the opinion of many people Mr.Rhodes is South Africa; others think he is only a large part of it.