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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
494 FROM KHOTAN TO LONDON [CHAP. xxxlll.
indeed every reason to feel grateful to the Survey of India Department, and in particular to its present head, Colonel St. G. Gore, c.s.i., for having provided me with so willing and well trained an assistant. With Ram Singh there left also Jasvant Singh, the wiry little
RAM SINGH AND JASVANT SINGH, WITH ` YOLCHI BEG,'
IN MR. MACARTNEY'S GARDEN, KASHGAR.
Rajput who had looked after the Surveyor's bodily comforts with exemplary care and devotion. Cheerful and contented, however long the march or bleak our camping-ground, Jasvant Singh could indeed serve as a model to every one of my followers.
Knowing how great a favourite ` Yolchi Beg ' was with both my Hindus, I could safely entrust the genial little fox-terrier to their
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