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Jones,.said that he had in his regiment an excellent fellow who might volunteer. When I asked the youth whether he would join me, he replied at once, " I will go with you. to Kabul, Lhasa, or Pekin," rendering further parley unnecessary. The man was named Naik Abdul Karim ;
MY ORDERLY, ABDUL IiAItI.II.
he was a Chinaman, a native of Yunnan, whence he had wandered through Lhasa and Nepal to India. The permission of the Military Department was obtained,
- and the orderly joined me at Srinagar a few days before I started. Other members of the party were Dass, the cook ; Utam Singh, the collector ; Abdul Khalik, the
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