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We who had thought ourselves alone in all the sea were but one ship among a number. The ships proceeded after this manner see, I draw a pattern with foam boiling about each. Ahead of us were many ships bearing British troops cavalry, infantry and guns. To our right and left and behind us were Sikh, Gurkha, Dogra, Pathan, Punjabi, Rajput many, many men, on many ships.
'Thy Sikhs at least were of that opinion, said the soldier, with a scowl at the placid old man in the corner. 'Thy Sikhs thought so when our two companies came to help them at the Pirzai Kotal in the face of eight Afridi standards on the ridge not three months gone. He told the story of a Border action in which the Dogra companies of the Ludhiana Sikhs had acquitted themselves well.
The Dogra regiment to our left and the Gurkha regiment to our right gained on us fast, and we became, as it were, the center of a new moon. But then in the light of bursting shells we saw Colonel Kirby and Ranjoor Singh and Captain Fellowes and some other officers far out in front of us beckoning calling on us for our greatest effort. We answered.
'Because, said Kim stoutly, 'he is holy, and thinks upon matters hidden from thee. 'That may be well. We of the Ludhiana Sikhs' he rolled it out sonorously 'do not trouble our heads with doctrine. We fight. 'There are also some Dogra companies there. The soldier glared, for a Dogra is of other caste than a Sikh, and the banker tittered. 'They are all one to me, said the Amritzar girl.
An Amritzar courtesan near the window sniffed behind her head drapery. 'Enter! Enter! cried a fat Hindu money-lender, his folded account-book in a cloth under his arm. With an oily smirk: 'It is well to be kind to the poor. 'Ay, at seven per cent a month with a mortgage on the unborn calf, said a young Dogra soldier going south on leave; and they all laughed.
Wrote Fitz in much the same sense: "We are desperately keen to extract a Gurkha Brigade out of Egypt and you might lend a hand, not only to us, but to all your own Sikh and Dogra Regiments, by making K. see that the Indian Army was never given a dog's chance in the mudholes. They were benumbed: it was not their show.
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