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shuffled about by a loutish soldier, whom finally we
browbeat into immediate delivery of the letter,
which goes not to M. Petrovsky, who is old and
wisely sleeps at 2 P.M., but to his assistant, a young
officer, fortunately speaking French. We are court-
eously received. Our host is evidently embarrassed
when we ask about quarters; at last, he helplessly
asks if we know Colonel Miles, the British repre-
sentative. "No," I reply, "but of course we shall;
and may he not be able to direct us to quarters?"
"Yes indeed!"—This said rather eagerly sent us
straight to our impatient caravan. Again we thread
through narrow bazaars, defenceless gates and blind
alleys, until the British compound is reached.
What moral and physical security one feels on
reaching, in the earth's far-away corners, Eng-
land's straightforward officers, speaking one's native
tongue! No, I am not an Anglomaniac, and I 've
made a fine list of British faults waiting to be aired;
but when I think of Sir Rennell Rodd at Cairo,
General Creagh at Aden, Captain Harold at Zeila,
Sir John Harrington and Mr. Baird at Adis Ababa
(Menelik's capital), Major Parker at Roseires on the
Blue Nile, a lot of kind hearts at Khartoum, Miles
here at Kashgar, Colonel Sullivan at Srinagar (in
Kashmir)—then I must make sure that manliness,
kindliness, steadiness, frankness, shall be italicised
as counterpoise to various misdemeanours which the
list shall disclose.
"This is Colonel Miles?"
"Yes."
"This is Captain Anginieur, of the French army,
and I am Mr. Crosby, an American traveller. I
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