A TYPICAL BRITISH SUBAITERN.
In 1876 Lord Lytton offerccl the late Sir Georso Pomeroy-Colley the military secretaryship in India. Soon after his arrival he was sent on a mission to Khelat.'and on his
way tlulher he. met a subaltern of the type ■which had been wandering for nearly two dered immortal:—" The British officer, he wrote in n letter home, is a strange and very amusing creature. A young officer arrived here only this morning fresh from Khelat, or at least from the Brilueh Hills, among which he had been wandering for nearly two months.. lat once got alongside him for news. His view of (he political situation was comprised in the opinion that Khelat was ' the d—dost hole in the world,' and the people ' not a bad lot of- fo97e.ini. but dirty, and d—d thieves.' But he"had fished up nearly every pass and stream, and could tell mo exactly what . holes to go lo for the higgest fish and what flies to catch them with. I couldn't ma'-e out that he had taken any escort or thought it nocossiiry to trouble himself about the inhabitants in any way: and I believe a chap like that, if lie could only bo trained to keep his eyes open as well, could fish and loaf his way anywhere. "\
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11402, 20 April 1899, Page 3
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216A TYPICAL BRITISH SUBAITERN. Otago Daily Times, Issue 11402, 20 April 1899, Page 3
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