They attacked a battalion of the 14th Madras Infantry with 26-pounders and compelled them to seek shelter in a village; and they gave us a furious wind-up at Asirgarh.

Yet the whole of these Arabs were not 6000." There is no doubt that the Arabs are one of the finest fighting races of the world.

Their ancestors were the Saracens who gained a great empire in Europe and Asia.

Their hardihood and powers of endurance are brought to the highest pitch by the rigours of desert life, while owing to their lack of nervous sensibility the shock and pain of wounds affect them less than civilised troops.

And in addition their religion teaches that all who die in battle against the infidel are transported straight to a paradise teeming with material and sensual delights.