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Neither sex possessed personal attractions, and the head-dresses of the women seen from behind resembled a pawnbroker's sign, except that they were blue instead of gilt. The people lived chiefly on holcus, and a narcotic called "jat," made by pounding the tender twigs of a tree of the same name.
Harry had, each day, paid a visit to the troopers, who were confined in a large airy room opening into the courtyard. They had been well fed, and had been permitted to go out into the open air, for several hours a day, and to mingle freely with the Jat soldiers. Half an hour after his interview with the rajah Harry went down there.
"Terms which I think, sir, you will have no hesitation in accepting. Here is a draft of the treaty that he proposes." The rajah glanced at the document, which was written in English and in Mahratti, for none of the general's staff understood the Jat language.
Unwilling to break abruptly with the Jat chief, Najib had sent an envoy to him, in the first instance, pointing out that the office he solicited involved a transfer of the territory, and referring him to the Biloch occupant for his consent. The account of the negotiation is so characteristic of the man and the time, that I have thought it worth preserving.
Yasmini waited at the stair head until she heard them pull him into a gharri and drive away. Then she turned to her favorite maid. "Them those cattle I understand!" she said. "But it does not suit me that a Sikh, a Jat, a buffalo, should come here making mysteries of his own without consulting me! And what does not suit me I do not tolerate!
Major Popham, one of the best of the local officers, was accordingly sent to assist the Rana and stir up a confederation of Jat and Rajput powers to aid against the Musalman-Mahratta alliance by which British interests were threatened.
He must feel that his situation is almost desperate, and it would put him beyond the reach of pardon, if he were to massacre his prisoners." The Jat had now dismounted, and could be seen making his way towards them on foot; sometimes coming straight, but more often making long bends and turns.
Here are sleek Hindus from northern India in soft muslin and neat coloured turbans: Gujarathis in red head-gear and close-fitting white garments; Cutchi sea-farers, descendants of the pirates of dead centuries, with clear-cut bronzed features that show a lingering strain of Med or Jat, clad in white turbans, tight jackets, and waist cloths girded tightly over trousers that button at the ankle.
She had to tell of five regiments on the way. "The first will be here in two or three hours" she asserted; "your men, Ranjoor Singh your Jat Sikhs that are ever first to mutiny!" She squealed delight as the Sikh's face flushed at the insult. "What is the cocked pistol for?" she asked the German. He told her, but she did not seem frightened in the least.
And we'll stick up for that miserable little devil Chandranath." "Yes we will." "No more don't I. He's the wrong 'ját. He won't stay long you'll see. But still he shan't be bullied by Scabs, because he's not the same colour outside. You see that sort of thing in India too.
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