A Typical British Subaltern.
In 1876 Lord Lytton offered the late Sir George Pomeroy-Colley the military secretaryship in India. Soon after his arrival ha was sent on a mission to Khelat, and on his way thither he met a subaltern of the type which had been wandering for nearly two dered immortal:— "The British officer, ho wrote in a letter home, is a strange and very amusing cr.eature. A young officer arrived here only this morning fresh from Khelat, or at least from the Baluch Hills, among which he had been wandering for nearly two months. lat once got alongside him for news. His view of the political situation was comprised in the . opinion that Khelat was ' the d — dest hole in the world,' and the people ' not a bad lot of beggars, but dirty, and d — d thieves.' But he had fished up nearly every pass and stream, and could tell /me exactly what holes tc go to for tha biggest fish and what flies to catch them with. I couldn't make out that he had taken any escort or thought it necessary to trouble himself about the inhabitants in any way; and 1 believe a chap like that, if he could only be trained to keep his eyes open as well, could fish and loaf his way anywhere."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2355, 13 April 1899, Page 60
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220A Typical British Subaltern. Otago Witness, Issue 2355, 13 April 1899, Page 60
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