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| マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.1 |
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AGE, 20-23.
THE KHYTUL AFFAIR XxxV
irrigation canals of the north-west with head-quarters at
Kurnaul. Here he had for chief Captain (afterwards General
Sir William) Baker, who became his dearest and most steadfast
friend. Early in I843 Yule had his first experience of field
service. The death without heir of the Khytul Rajah, followed
by the refusal of his family to surrender the place to the native
troops sent to receive it, obliged Government to send a larger
force against it, and the canal officers were ordered to join this.
Yule was detailed to serve under Captain Robert Napier (after-
wards F.-M. Lord Napier of Magdala). Their immediate duty
was to mark out the route for a night march of the troops,
barring access to all side roads, and neither officer having then
had any experience of war, they performed the duty " with all the
elaborate care of novices." Suddenly there was an alarm, a light
detected, and a night attack awaited, when the danger resolved
itself into Clerk Sahib's khansainah with welcome hot coffee ! 28
Their hopes were disappointed, there was no fighting, and the
Fort of Khytul was found deserted by the enemy. It " was a
strange scene of confusion all the paraphernalia and accumula-
tion of odds and ends of a wealthy native family lying about
and inviting loot. I remember one beautiful crutch-stick of
ebony with two rams' heads in jade. I took it and sent it in to
the political authority, intending to buy it when sold. There
was a sale, but my stick never appeared. Somebody had a
more developed taste in jade. . . . Amid the general rummage
that was going on, an officer of British Infantry had been put
over a part of the palace supposed to contain treasure, and they
officers and all were helping themselves. Henry Lawrence
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was one of the politicals under George Clerk. When the news
r~ of this affair carne to him I was present. It was in a white
marble loggia in the palace, where was a white marble chair or
throne on a basement. Lawrence was sitting on this throne in
great excitement. He wore an Afghan choga, a sort of dressing-
gown garment, and this, and his thin locks, and thin beard were
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28 Mr. (afterwards Sir) George Clerk, Political Officer with the expedition.
Was twice Governor of Bombay and once Governor of the Cape : " A diplomatist of the true English stamp—undaunted in difficulties and resolute to maintain the honour of his country." (Sir H. B. Edwardes, Life of Hem y Lawrence, i. 267). He died in
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