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Leaves from the Diaries of a Soldier and Sportsman during Twenty Years’ Service in India Afghanistan Egypt and Other Countries 1865-1885 With Illustrations Including Some of the Author’s Sketches

1903

a grand chatice of wiping off some of their old dues and after the more port-. able property had been annexed in the name of the Govern/nt some of the more hungry troops were Been free quarters on the offenders as the expression was to eat udv the tribe " which they literally did. [...] The narrow ttitrances on the principle of the VOmitoiria of the Rom.an 'Colosseum are few in number and situated aboct half-way up tie tiers of steps ; and the only distinction as to prices of seats for the public is between sol and sombra (sun or shade) the whole place being open to the sky! and at 4 P. M. pretty grilling on the sumo; side. [...] Two more cases shortly afterwards occurring removed all doubt and the epidemic set in steadily first raging on the North Front ; then following ulD with a couple of cases in the casemates in the tvo lwrack-rooms on either side of the main roadway as if it had walked in by it ; the / gradually working southwirds through the town occasioally sparing the entire side of one of the narrow lanes [...] The contract then had to be put up again and was taken by B-- the only man in a position to tender at an advance of something like Too per cent.son the former bargain and it was currently reported in the bazaar that the original tenderer was merely an agtnt of B.--'s the forfeit of Rs.40 000 being a mere bagatelle in comparison with the enhanced price of a lakh or two of rupee* thus obtained. [...] The native broke the butt of his pistol over the panther's head but the beast got him by the leg and they both fell to the ground.
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Pages
433
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142412
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vii Montague Gerard view
Chapter I Gibraltar 1864-1866
1-22 unknown view
Chapter II Central Provinces—1866-1868
23-59 unknown view
Chapter III Guzerat—1868
60-i unknown view
Chapter IV Abyssinia and Guzerat
67-106 unknown view
Chapter V Central India—1871-1875
107-178 unknown view
Chapter VI Hungary—Corfu—Russia—1875-1876
179-199 unknown view
Chapter VII Central India—1877-78
200-226 unknown view
Chapter VIII Afghan War—1878-79
227-316 unknown view
Chapter IX Egypt—1882
317-345 unknown view
Chapter X Central India—1883-1884
346-394 unknown view
Index
395-400 unknown view
Backmatter
1-6 unknown view

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