228 THE DOWNFALL OF THE DERVISHES (two thousand feet a second at the muzzle), passed clean through an enemy’s body, but failed to administer a sufficiently crushing blow. At Krugersdorp an ordinary Lee-Metford bullet was driven right through the brain of a Boer; and so far was the tiny puncture from being immediately fatal, that the Dutchman walked to church next Sunday—though it is true that on the Sunday following he went there again in a coffin. Of course this solid bullet, when it chanced to come in contact with a bone, served its purpose well, and shattered the bone to atoms. The first occasion, I believe, on which the Lee-Metford bullet was fired into a human body was at the well-known Featherstone riots; and I remember seeing a drawing made by a medical man at the time of the foot of one of the rioters, which had been struck. Not only was the lower part of the leg bone completely smashed, but almost every bone in the foot had been broken more ot less by the terrific force of the bullet. . Apropos of dum - dum bullets, man -stopping bullets, e¢ hoc genus omne, a good deal of false sentiment has been evoked in England and France. The main object of a