THE HORSES.
One has been speaking so far of Indian infantry; the cavalryman has been in better case, lifted, as he is, out of the worst of the mud and quartered, as he has been, in kindlier country. Indeed, the cavalry looked as admirable as one could wish it to be, and one saw it in its thousands. The horses, hard and fit, carrying no need less flesh, firm of barrel and round of flank; the men young, robust, alert, admirably turned out —fuller of fight one could not hope to see them. J
With food in plenty and work none too easy to come by, they naturally have not suffered the ordinary ills of a campaign. Except for a slight touch of fever, which had a local cause, both the Walers and the ccuntry-breds have been extraordinarily well.
The Indian regiments have been, of course, a short time in the country, and they had to recover from a very long sea voyage and adapt themselves t 0 an entirely different climate, which they found at Its worst. All that they need now is opportunity. i
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Northern Advocate, 10 May 1915, Page 7
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