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GRIM-THE-COLLIER. This is an old inhabitant of our gardens, and affords a pleasing variety. HOTTONIA palustris. WATER VIOLET. This is a plant of singular beauty in spring; it is an aquatic, and makes a fine appearance in our ponds in the time of its bloom. IBERIS amara. CANDYTUFT. An annual flower of considerable beauty and interest. We have several varieties of this sold in the seed-shops.
Khem Singh would sit on his own cushion at the Subaltern's feet, drinking heavy, scented anise-seed brandy in great gulps, and telling strange stories of Fort Amara, which had been a palace in the old days, of Begums and Ranees tortured to death aye, in the very vaulted chamber that now served as a Mess-room; would tell stories of Sobraon that made the Subaltern's cheeks flush and tingle with pride of race, and of the Kuka rising from which so much was expected and the foreknowledge of which was shared by a hundred thousand souls.
She appeared very happy and very well, did not say another word about the blankets, but ordered a pipe for herself, and sat chatting, laughing, and smoking in concert with me. Greatly tickled at the flattery, she said, "We hear men like yourself come to Amara from the other side, and drive cattle away."
The railway from Kurna to Amara was nearing completion towards the end of November. It is possible for vessels of considerable size to traverse the whole length of the Shatt-el-Arab up to its point of commencement at Kurna. The railway, so long in coming, will make a great difference to the troops in the country during the next hot season.
One hundred and fifty people packed on a small deck, round a funnel that is still burning hot, make a poor job of sleeping in such a climate. It was the devout prayer of everyone that we might reach our destination next day and get off the ship and away from those mules. That was not to be. We reached Amara in the darkness of the evening, and anchored near the Rawal Pindi Hospital.
And later still, Mr Leon, another missionary, heard of the N'yanza and the country Amara, near which he heard the Nile made its escape. Going on with the march we next came to Ndongo, a perfect garden of plantains. The whole country was rich most surprisingly so. The same streaky argillaceous sandstones prevailed as in Karague.
"Who knows?" he said, as he had said when they were riding up the sand slope. "Who knows?" Then they got off their horses and were taken by the crowd. The tumult of Amara waked up in Domini the town-sense that had been slumbering.
"Its very thought is almost death to me; Yet, having found some good there, I will tell Of other things which there I chanced to see." "Tanto e amara, che poco e piu morte: Ma per trattar del teen ch' i' vi trovai, Diro dell' altre Bose, ch' io v' ho scorte." Inferno, I. 7-10. Again in Canto X. we find:
An effort was made to further the interests of medical science, and the Amara clinical society was started at which doctors met weekly and discussed cases and diagnoses, and papers were read. There is, I think, no better proof that, in its central core, medicine is an art, and not a science, than the kind of discussion that goes on at medical meetings.
'I will go back to Fort Amara of my own free will and gain honour. Give me good clothes to return in. So, at his own time, Khem Singh knocked at the wicket-gate of the Fort and walked to the Captain and the Subaltern, who were nearly gray-headed on account of correspondence that daily arrived from Simla marked 'Private. 'I have come back, Captain Sahib, said Khem Singh.
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