A Slight Mistake.
• • : . ; -■■■. ,i» T— ; . . ' .. ■ The following extract m from a Cairo paper : — " The Bedouins were greatlja^ puzzled by the garb ot the Highlanders^ who, they came to the conclusion/ were not soldiers, but. the wives T of the soldiers. Distance of course encouraged this delusion, as bare legs were ob-: viously more discernible than the men's faces, covered as they were with veils. The Bedouins', noticed, that the soldiers' women camped by themselves, and they resolved to go down and spoil the infidel soldier 8 of their wives j and a body of them actually' went, with a result which must have added to the wonderment of both, for the British harem turned out with rifle 1 and bayonet; and very •speedily thirty or forty of the amorous Bedoains , bit the dust. After this; episode the soldiers* wires were not again attacked. by Arab sheikhs who wanted to replenish their harems with English moonfaces." ■ <
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 53, 26 January 1883, Page 2
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155A Slight Mistake. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 53, 26 January 1883, Page 2
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