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Updated: June 21, 2025
During this dignified pause, while doubtless supplies were being collected, and negotiations proceeding with the enemy, the British outpost line lay in full view of, and only "one shout's distance," as the Pathans expressively call it, from the enemy. And outside the line of infantry outposts lay a cavalry picket of twenty men of the Guides.
A bad character? Now without doubt an enemy has told this tale. Never was I a scamp. I am a man of clean heart, and all my words are true. They knew this when I was in the Police. They said: 'Afzal Khan is a true speaker in whose words men may trust. I am a Delhi Pathan, Sahib all Delhi Pathans are good men. You have seen Delhi? Yes, it is true that there be many scamps among the Delhi Pathans.
By the Pathans, however, a contrary sentiment is displayed. He was hanged after shooting a sergeant, perfectly satisfied "at having expiated his offence."
But if we reasoned in this wise so did our enemies; for it was now toward the close of the month of August and redoubled efforts were being put forth to accomplish the breaching of our walls, so that The Tiger of the Pathans might be slain before there was the chance of his fangs and claws again becoming dangerous.
The march was continued at a rapid pace, until they reached the block caused by the narrowness of the path. Here the whole river reach became choked with animals and doolies. The wounded were coming in fast, when the Pathans, taking advantage of the block, attacked in great force, hoping to compel the retreating force to make their way down the long river defile.
The two Pathans remained rigid, impassive, the greater the danger the cooler do these men become: but the Kirghiz a creature without self-respect shook so violently that he dropped the bridles of his ponies. "Run, Sahib . . run!" he stammered. "Or we be all dead men." But there was nowhere to run to, even had running on an ice-slope been possible; which it was not.
'I won't have Line men taken off regular guards in this way. Put on a couple of Native Infantry. 'Sikhs? said the Subaltern, lifting his eyebrows. 'Sikhs, Pathans, Dogras they're all alike, these black vermin, and the Captain talked to Khem Singh in a manner which hurt that old gentleman's feelings.
Their left centre was led by the two vazirs, Shujaa-ud-daulah and Shah Wali. The right centre consisted of Rohillas, under the well-known Hafiz Rahmat and other chiefs of the Indian Pathans.
"Of course, I cannot report your adventure in full, but can merely say that Lieutenant Bullen, whom I had reported killed, was wounded and taken prisoner by the Pathans; and has managed, with great resource, to make his escape and rejoin the force. Your last adventure, sir, showed remarkable courage; and this time you have proved that you possess an equal amount of calmness and judgment.
Sikhs and Ghurkas and Rajputs and Pathans and Gharwalis, the brown-skinned tribesmen in India, have been on a strange Odyssey, bringing picturesqueness to the khaki tone of modern war. Aeroplanes interested them less than a trotting dog in a wheel for drawing water. They would watch that for hours.
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