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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue VII, 16 August 1902, Page 408

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AN INTERESTING OLD PICTURE The above picture will be of special interest to the many friends of the late Primate, the Most Rev. Bishop Cowie. It represents an incident in his early career when he was with the Army in India. In 1863 the Bonairs, an Afghan tribe next the Frontier line, had been getting troublesome by raiding their peaceful neighbours’ cattle, etc. It was resolved to punish them, and at the same time exterminate a nest of old mutineers who were reported to be living in a village called Titana at the head of the Umbeylah Pass. A force of 6000 men, including two English regiments and nineteen guns, under Sir Neville Chamberlin were continually engaged from Octobex- to the. end of the year fig-hting a combination of all the tribes between the Indus and Kabul rivers—about 15,000 men in number. Chaplain Cowie was out .one day with a partyof tin- 101st Regiment, who captured one of the enemy’s flags. The sketch (taken on the spot) represents the late Bishop returning to camp with the flag in one hand and a drawn.tulwar (native sword) in the other. We are indebted for the picture to Captain Brodie, of Reninera, an old Auckland resident, who, previous to his coming to New Zealand, saw service in India with the 71st Highland Light Infantry, and was present on the occasion described. He then made a. rough drawing of the scene, and it is from the same that our picture is taken.