Lockhart's Advance Through TirahNew Amsterdam Book Company, 1899 - 319 頁 |
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15th Sikhs 1st Battalion 2nd 1st Brigade 2nd Battalion 36th Sikhs 3rd Brigade 3rd Sikhs 4th Brigade 5th Ghoorkhas advance Afridis Afridis and Orakzais Arhanga Pass Army attack baggage Battalion 2nd Ghoorkhas Bombay Brigadier-General Brigadier-General Kempster's bullet Camp Bagh campaign Captain carts casualties cavalry Chagru Kotal Chamkannis Colonel Haughton command Corps Crown 8vo Dargai Dorsetshire Regiment drivers Dwatoi enemy enemy's expedition fighting flank foraging force frontier garrison Gordon Highlanders hill houses India Karappa Kempster Khusalgarh Khyber Pass killed Kohat Kohat Pass large number Lieutenant line of communications losses Maidan main column Mastura Valley miles Mountain Battery move mule Native Field Hospital night Northampton Regiment nullah Orakzais Pathan Peshawur pickets ponies Punjaub Punjaub Infantry railway rearguard retirement road Royal Artillery Royal Scots Fusiliers Samana Range sangars Sappers and Miners Saragarhi second division Shinawari side Sir William Lockhart towers transport animals tribes tribesmen wounded Yorkshire Regiment Zakka Khels
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第 19 頁 - This is a delightful book, irresistibly funny in description and illustration, but full of genuine science too There is not a dull or uninstructive page in the whole book.
第 20 頁 - Royal 8vo., Strongly half-bound, 36/Thacker's Indian Directory, 1898. Embracing the whole of British India, Burmah, and Native States. With complete and detailed Information of the Cities of Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, Allahabad, Lahore, Simla, Rangoon, etc. Tea, Indigo, Coffee, Silk, Sugar, Lac, Cinchona, Jute, Cotton, Paper, Collieries, Mines, etc. Almanack, Army List, Civil List (with Salaries), Railway List, Newspaper Directory and General Information, with Map of India and Two Maps of Calcutta....
第 9 頁 - Ruthless, cowardly robbery, cold-blooded, treacherous murder, are to an Afridi the salt of life. Brought up from his earliest childhood amid scenes of appalling treachery and merciless revenge, nothing can ever change him : as he has lived — a shameless, cruel savage — so he dies.
第 8 頁 - Large Game Shooting in Thibet, the Himalayas, and Northern India. By Colonel ALEXANDER A. KINLOCH. Containing Descriptions of the Country and of the various Animals to be found ; together with Extracts from a Journal of several years
第 19 頁 - Lays ' are not only Anglo-Indian in origin, but out-and-out Anglo-Indian in subject and colour. To one who knows something of life at an Indian ' station ' they will be especially amusing. Their exuberant fun at the same time may well attract the attention of the ill-defined individual known as
第 5 頁 - VETERINARY NOTES. For Horse Owners An Illustrated Manual of Horse Medicine and Surgery written in simple language.
第 24 頁 - Now these tribes are savages, noble savages perhaps, and not without some tincture of virtue and generosity, but still absolutely barbarians nevertheless. They have nothing approaching to Government or Civil institutions ; they have for the most part no education ; they have nominally a religion, but...
第 26 頁 - They consider retaliation and revenge to be the strongest of all obligations. They possess gallantry and courage themselves, and admire such qualities in others. Men of the same party will stand by one another in danger. To their minds hospitality is the first of virtues. Any person who can make his way into their dwellings will not only be safe, but will be kindly received. But as soon as he has left the roof of his entertainer, he may be robbed or killed. They are charitable to the indigent of...
第 5 頁 - The Field. —"Of the many popular veterinary books which have come under our notice, this is certainly one of the most scientific and reliable. The...
第 5 頁 - A year or two ago we had to speak in terms of praise of the first edition of this book, and we welcome the second and more complete issue. The first edition was out of print in six months, but, instead of reprinting it, Capt. Hayes thought it better to wait until he had enough material in hand to enable him to make to the second edition those additions and improvements he had proposed to himself to add. The result is in every way satisfactory, and in this handsome book the searcher after sound information...