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His simple creed is just what came from the Saviour's lips two thousand years ago, and comprises His teaching of the whole duty of man to love God, the great "En' Kos," and his neighbor as himself.
By the way, Grant, did you order the two sheep to be killed and sent aboard immediately?" "Of course I did. Have I not always proved myself a trustworthy messenger? I told the man, in my best Norse, to have two `Kos' killed without delay." "Two what?" exclaimed Fred, with a look of alarm. "Two Kos," returned Grant; "did you not tell me that Ko is the Norse word for a sheep?"
The Kos is a measure of distance nearly equal to two English miles, but varying in different provinces. The Muhammadans, after being cured of sickness or wounds, also their women, after recovery from child-bed, always bathe in luke-warm water; which is called the ablution of cure. A mere novice in the language would say that Mir Amman writes "bad grammar" here!
"Sixty kilometers, honored one," he replied. "What! Nearly forty English miles?" "It may be so, Effendi. In our reckoning it is twenty kos and one kos is three kilometers." "But these Italians in the mirage they must be camped near water?" "There is none nearer than the Well of Suleiman, Effendi." "Is it possible that a mirage would reveal so clearly a scene taking place at such a distance?"
A few of the kos-minars, pillars which marked off the kos a distance of about two and a half miles can still be seen along the road, or in the adjoining fields. Numerous remains of archæological interest are passed on the way of the old road. First the Delhi gate of the old city walls.
Beyond, not two kos away, were a thousand soldiers, which was a gorgeous lie, who if he but sent a messenger would come and behead the lot, would cast the sacred bones in the gaudy bags upon the dunghill of the village bullocks. "To-morrow, monkey-man, the gift will be doubled," Ajeet answered calmly, "for that is the law, and you know it."
Breakfasted under a huge walnut-tree, at a village about six kos off, and reached Islamabad about one P.M., after a very hot tramp of ten kos, through groves of sycamore and walnuts, and hundreds and hundreds of acres of rice-fields, immersed in water, and tenanted by whole armies of croaking frogs.
About eight kos from Sucknez we reached Bragnion, where we found the camp pitched in a most promising position, having a fine view of the valley below, and the distant ranges of mountains.
A cut-glass lantern and the label of a bottle of cherry-brandy in particular, seemed to them the very essence of the rare and curious, and they seemed never tired of admiring them. After breakfast we again took the road, and marched three kos to another little wooded settlement, called Nurila, situated, like Kulchee, upon the Indus, or, as it is here called, the Attock.
Started at daybreak for Atchabull, three and a half kos off towards the north-east. The baraduree we found situated in the middle of a large reservoir, in a beautiful but half-ruined garden; and here, the commissariat being unusually late in arriving, we took the edge off our appetites with a quantity of small apricots, red plums, cherries, &c.
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