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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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too severely, controlled, and both people and rulers made to
understand that in this latter end of the nineteenth century
the time had passed when they could raid with impunity, and
without ever considering the other side of the question.
It might be imagined that after a war with them, and
after the flight of their ruler, the people would be anything
but friendly with the British, but eight months later, when
I again visited the country, to relieve Captain Stewart, the
political agent, upon whom had devolved the task of super-
intending the affairs of the country at the conclusion of the
campaign, the people were quiet and peaceful, as if they had
been born and bred under British administration; officers were
able to travel anywhere through the country without an
escort, and were always treated with respect. As I have
already intimated, these people had no rooted antipathy to
the British Government, and they form a remarkable instance
of the good effects which come of following up a successful
campaign by assuming a permanent control. Had we given
these people a hard knock and then retired, as we so frequently
do, and as we are always recommended to do by certain
people, these men of Hunza, like children, would have forgotten
the lesson that had been taught them, and in a few years
would have committed some act of folly—a raid, an attack
upon a Kashmir outpost, or some other aggression—which
would have necessitated another invasion of their country, and
bad feeling would gradually have grown up between us and
them, as it has between the Afghans and the British, though
originally the Afghans were well disposed towards us. The
theory that if the troops were entirely withdrawn after a cam-
paign, and the people left quite independent, they would be
more friendly, is not to be trusted. It sounds very well, but
it is not borne out by facts. There are other ways of preserving
such amount of independence as a semi-barbarous state situated
between two great civilized Powers can have, besides with-
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