Men would offer to clean his rifle, cook his dinner, and do other little offices for him.

He would, however, never accept these kind offers.
"Why do they call you sahib ?" one of the English officers asked him, when he heard him so addressed.
"I do not know," he answered.

"It is a silly joke of the men.

I have protested against it, without success.

If they chose to call me 'colonel,' I could not help it.