 | Charles Ball - India - 1858 - 750 pages
...cavalry outpost. My eyes filled with joyful tears, and I shook the Sikh officer in charge of the picket heartily by the hand. The old soldier was as pleased...me to the camp of the advanced guard. An officer of her majesty's 9th lancers, who was visiting his pickets, met me on the way, and took me to his tent,... | |
 | India - 1858 - 486 pages
...cavalry outpost; my eyes filled with joyful tears, and I shook the Sikh officer in charge of the picquet heartily by the hand. The old soldier was as pleased...send two of his men to conduct me to the camp of the advance-guard. An officer of her Majesty's 9th Lancers, who was visiting his picquets, met me on the... | |
 | George Dodd - China - 1859 - 664 pages
...in charge of the picket heartily by the hand. The old soldier was as pleased u myself when he heard whence I had come ; and he was good enough to send two of his men to conduct me to the camp of the advance-guard. An officer of her Majesty'« 9th Lancers, who was visiting his pickets, met me on the... | |
 | Sambhu Chandra Mookerjee - India - 1859 - 220 pages
...Cavalry outpost ; my eyes filled with joyful tears and I shook the Seikh officer in charge of the picquet heartily by the hand. The old soldier was as pleased as myself, when he heard whence I had come, and he was good enough to send two of his men to conduct me to the Camp of the advance... | |
 | George Dodd - China - 1859 - 668 pages
...cavalry outpost : my eyes filled with joyful tears, and I shook the Sikh officer in charge of the picket heartily by the hand. The old soldier was as pleased as myself when he heard whence I had coine ; and he tras good enough to send two of his men to conduct me to the camp of the... | |
 | James Grant - India - 1876 - 690 pages
...joyful tears, and I shook the Sikh officer in charge of the picket heartily by the hand," he continues. "The old soldier was as pleased as myself when he...to the camp of the advanced guard. An officer of HM gih Lancers met me on the way and took me to his tent, where I got dry stockings and trousers, and... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - 1878 - 488 pages
...cavalry outpost ; my eyes filled with joyful tears, and I shook the Sikh officer in charge of the picket heartily by the hand. The old soldier was as pleased...An officer of HM 9th Lancers, who was visiting his pickets, met me on the way, and took me into his tent, where I got dry stockings and trousers, and,... | |
 | Ernest Foster - Adventure and adventurers - 1885 - 288 pages
...cavalry outpost ; my eyes filled with joyful tears, and I shook the Sikh officer in charge of the picket heartily by the hand. The old soldier was as pleased...me to the camp of the advanced guard. An officer of her Majesty's gth Lancers, who was visiting his pickets, met me on the way, and took me into his tent,... | |
 | Ernest Foster - Adventure and adventurers - 1886 - 292 pages
...cavalry outpost ; my eyes filled with joyful tears, and I shook the Sikh officer in charge of the picket heartily by the hand. The old soldier was as pleased...me to the camp of the advanced guard. An officer of her Majesty's gth Lancers, who was visiting his pickets, met me on the way, and took me into his tent,... | |
 | Philip Aveling Wilkins - Commonwealth countries - 1904 - 476 pages
...cavalry outpost ! My eyes filled with joyful tears ; I shook the Sikh officer in charge of the picquet by the hand ; the old soldier was as pleased as myself...send two of his men to conduct me to the camp of the advance guard. An officer of HM's 9th Lancers, who was visiting his picquets, met me on the way, and... | |
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... there was any one in the grove who would tell him where we then were. " We had not gone far when I heard the English challenge, ' Who comes there ? ' with a native accent. We had reached a British cavalry outpost ; my eyes filled with joyful tears,... 
