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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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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 fight
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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