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82 11 goums 'goums, armed contingents supplied by Algerian tribes for the French army, and commanded by French officers. 82 15 Pont-Neuf: this 'New Bridge' is the oldest of the many which span the Seine in Paris. It was completed in 1604 by Henry IV, and figures in many legends of old Paris. C'est vieux comme le Pont-Neuf has become a proverb. 82 20 faisant frrt! 'saying sst!
The progress of the British army in Asia has been marked by a scrupulous reference to justice, an inviolable respect for property, an abstinence from anything which could tend to wound the feelings and prejudices of the people; and the result is this that I saw, not many weeks ago, a distinguished military officer who had just returned from the center of Afghanistan, from a place called Candahar which many of you perhaps never heard of, and told me that he, accompanied by half a dozen attendants, but without any military escort, had ridden on horseback many thousand miles, through a country inhabited by wild and semibarbarous tribes who, but two years ago, were arrayed in fierce hostility against the approach of British arms, but that he had ridden through them all with as much safety as he could have ridden from Tiverton to John Great's house, his name as a British officer being a passport through them all, because the English had respected their rights, and afforded them protection, and treated them with justice.
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