Crossword-Solution: MELMOTH 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The translation which follows is adopted from the very free version of Melmoth, except in one or two places, where it differs much from the ordinary text.

Here it is according to Melmoth: “The letter which, in compliance with your request, I wrote to you concerning the death of my uncle, has raised, it seems, your curiosity to know what terrors and danger attended me while I continued at Misenum: for there, I think, the account in my former letter broke off.

Fynney, my colleague at the time of the annexation of the Transvaal in 1877, who, as Zulu Border Agent, with the exceptions of the late Sir Theophilus Shepstone and the late Sir Melmoth Osborn, perhaps knew more of that land and people than anyone else of his period.

The opposing forces met, and the noise of their clashing shields, said Sir Melmoth, was like the roll of heavy thunder.

What the true total was will never be known; but Sir Melmoth Osborn told me that when he swam his horse back across the Tugela that night it was black with bodies; and Sir Theophilus Shepstone also told me that when he visited the scene a day or two later the banks of the river were strewn with multitudes of them, male and female.