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186 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. VII.

tered the town, and everything went on as if

nothing had happened—the shopkeeper sold his

wares, and the countryman ploughed his fields,

totally indifferent as to who was or who was

not in power in Kashgar. Only the ruling

classes were affected, and most of them had

fled.

The Afghan merchants would often talk, too,

of our last war with them. Some of them had

fought against us. They asked me one day

where " Ropert " was. I did not quite under-

stand at first who or what they meant. But

they explained that he (it was a person appa-

rently) was a first-rate man to fight, and then

it struck me that they meant General Roberts.

They had a great admiration for him. One of

them said that he had set out from Kandahar

to Kabul, but on the way had " met " General

Roberts, and had returned. I was told after-

wards that he had been in three fights with the

British, but here, outside his own country, he

was friendly enough with an Englishman, and

he said he admired us for being able to tight

quite as well as Afghans ! They have a rather

overpowering pride at times, these Afghans ;

but, on the whole, one likes them for their

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