Sir John Login and Duleep Singh

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: safe escort, leaving their masters to supply their places Chapter as best they could with Heratis. Login was the only n- 1839-40. one unaffected by this move, as his faithful Khali pha. All Bux, would not desert him; he said that he had been with him from the first, and meant to die in his service. He also...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: safe escort, leaving their masters to supply their places Chapter as best they could with Heratis. Login was the only n- 1839-40. one unaffected by this move, as his faithful Khali pha. All Bux, would not desert him; he said that he had been with him from the first, and meant to die in his service. He also declared his intention to make himself comfortable in Herat, and take a Heraii wife, as it might be years before he again visited Lucknow, where he had left his wife. He found no difficulty in making his selection; and with the consent of her family, Fatimah, whom he declared fair like a Bclati Bibi, cast in her lot with the mission, and when its departure was decided on, refused to leave her husband, and with her child, aecompanied him through many dangers and forced marches, proving herself a fearless rider, t Poor Khalipha was not always able to preserve the peace between his rival wives when in after life he settled down in Lucknow, as Derogah of the Gharib- i.e., European lady. t On one occasion Khalipha, who was in charge of the baggage animals, saved the papers and valuables from loot by marauders. Solemnly opening one box he displayed a number of terrible-looking surgical instruments (of which they stand in great awe), and declared that these and some marvellous dawaie (medicine) formed the sole contents of the boxes, which were the property of the world-famed Hakim and Wizard who had worked such wonders at Herat, emphasizing his assertion by pointing at the same time to his enchanter's staff which he carried in bis hand, and to which the wild tribesmen instinctively salaamed with deep reverence. The staff was Login's favourite walking-stick, a very formidable bludgeon, a gift from D'Arcy Todd, having a coiled snake around it, and Ix-ing covered wi...