After visiting the fort they rambled through the town, and were amused at the scene of bustle in its streets; and at the gay shops, full of articles new and curious to them, in the bazaars.
"They are wonderfully clever and ingenious," Charlie said.

"Look what rough tools that man is working with, and what delicate and intricate work he is turning out.

If these fellows could but fight as well as they work, and were but united among themselves, not only should we be unable to set a foot in India, but the emperor, with the enormous armies which he would be able to raise, would be able to threaten Europe.

I suppose they never have been really good fighting men.
Alexander, a couple of thousand years ago, defeated them; and since then the Afghans, and other northern peoples, have been always overrunning and conquering them.
"I can't make it out.

These Sepoys, after only a few weeks' training, fight almost as well as our own men.