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| The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 | |
| マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.1 |
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引用情報
AGE, 23-27. SUTLEJ CAMPAIGN—WORK ON THE CANALS
11
reason he always abstained from wearing his medal for the
Sutlej campaign.
His elder brother, Robert Yule, then in the 16th Lancers, took
part in that magnificent charge of his regiment at the battle of
Aliwal (Jan. 28, 1846) which the Great Duke is said to have
pronounced unsurpassed in history. From particulars gleaned
from his brother and others present in the action, Henry Yule
prepared a spirited sketch of the episode, which was afterwards
published as a coloured lithograph by McLean (Haymarket).
At the close of the war, Yule succeeded his friend Strachey
as Executive Engineer of the northern division of the Ganges
Canal, with his head-quarters at Roorkee, " the division which,
being nearest the hills and crossed by intermittent torrents of
great breadth and great volume when in flood, includes the most
important and interesting engineering works." 32
At Roorkee were the extensive engineering workshops
connected with the canal. Yule soon became so accustomed
to the din as to be undisturbed by the noise, but the un-
punctuality and carelessness of the native workmen sorely tried
his patience, of which Nature had endowed him with but a
small reserve. Vexed with himself for letting temper so often
get the better of him, Yule's conscientious mind devised a
characteristic remedy. Each time that he lost his temper, he
transferred a fine of two rupees (then about five shillings) from
his right to his left pocket. When about to leave Roorkee, he
devoted this accumulation of self-imposed fines to the erection
of a sun-dial, to teach the natives the value of time. The late
Sir James Caird, who told this legend of Roorkee as he heard it
there in 1880, used to add, with a humorous twinkle of his
kindly eyes, " It was a very handsome dial." 33
From September, 1845, to March, 1847, Yule was much
occupied intermittently, in addition to his professional work, by
service on a Committee appointed by Government cc to investi-
gate the causes of the unhealthiness which has existed at
Kurnal, and other portions of the country along the line of
the Delhi Canal," and further, to report " whether an injurious
333 Maclagan's Memoir of Vide, P.R. G.S., Feb. 1890.
33 On hearing this, Yule said to him, " Your story is quite correct except in one particular ; you understated the amount of the fine."
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