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Oriental Encounters

CHAPTER VII
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But the English Government is very bad.

Three Englishmen in Kars behaved like warrior-angels, fought like devils.

And while they fought for us their Government betrayed our country.

What?
Thou hast heard about it?
Praise to Allah! At last I meet with one who can confirm the story.

My son here thinks that I invented it.' I happened to have read of the defence of Kars under the leadership of three heroic Englishmen--General Williams, Captain Teesdale, and Doctor Sandwith--and of the betrayal of the Circassian rising under Shamyl at the time of the Crimean war.
The old man was delighted.


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