"The Black Hawk hates him--God knows why--and he is kept down in consequence, as if he were the idlest lout or the most incorrigible rebel in the service.

Look at what he has done.

All the Bureaux will tell you there is not a finer Roumi in Africa--not even among our Schaouacks! Since he joined, there has not been a hot and heavy thing with the Arabs that he has not had his share in.

There has not been a campaign in Oran or Kabaila that he had not gone out with.

His limbs are slashed all over with Bedouin steel.