After the fight was over, one of the Native officers, bemoaning the loss of the British officers, asked me who would be sent to replace them.

He added: '_Sahib, ham log larai men bahut tez hain, magar jang ka bandobast nahin jante_' ('Sir, we can fight well, but we do not understand military arrangements').

What the old soldier intended to convey to me was his sense of the inability of himself and his comrades to do without the leadership and general management of the British officers.] * * * * *.