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Mis à jour: 21 mai 2025
jeudi, 22 août. Je suis furieuse. Imaginez vous qu'il fait un temps affreux et que nous allons faire trente cinq milles par une pluie battante; ce sera affreux, et le terrain désert! Si ce n'était nos voyageurs que nous devons ramener, je crois que je n'irais pas; mais les chevaux sont commandés, tout est prêt, ainsi I must take my chance, mais je crains bien que notre course soit bien désagréable. Je me suis baignée ce matin; si j'en crois mes feelings, cela me fait plus de mal que de bien, car,
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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