6/11 I have horses, and spare horses for the journey; and in Rajputana I have horses waiting for thee--seven, all told--sufficient for a young officer. Six of them are country-bred-sand-weaned--a little wild perhaps, but strong, and up to thy weight. The seventh is a mare, got by thy father's stallion Aga Khan (him that made more than a hundred miles within a day under a fifteen-stone burden, with neither food nor water, and survived!). A good mare, sahib--indeed a mare of mares--fit for thy father's son. |