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Forty-one years in India

CHAPTER LXIII
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There would be a terrific fight amongst the animals, which would end in the tiger walking proudly over the dead bodies of the rest.' 'Whom,' I inquired, 'do you consider to be the tiger ?' 'The Mahomedan from the North,' was his reply.
[Illustration: THE MARQUIS OF DUFFERIN, K.P., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.M.S.I., G.M.I.E., VICEROY OF INDIA.
_From, an engraving by the Fine Art Society of a portrait by the late Frank Holl, R.A._] [Footnote 1: Now Sir Mount-Stuart Grant-Duff, G.C.S.I.] [Footnote 2: Now Sir Charles Bernard, K.C.S.I.] [Footnote 3: Lieutenant-Colonel G.T.Pretyman, R.A., was Assistant Military Secretary until 1884, when he was succeeded by Lieutenant-Colonel R.Pole-Carew, Coldstream Guards.

Lieutenant Neville Chamberlain, Central India Horse, and Captain Ian Hamilton, the Gordon Highlanders, were Aides-de-camp.] [Footnote 4: The finest of the Gassapa falls.] * * * * *.


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