The Thin red line Volume 6-9 ; The regimental paper of the 2d Batt., Princess Louise's, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...to the direction taken from the swamp to the fort. Although he had imagined the sound of hoof and clank of sword to come from the marshes opposite, these had long been stilled ere the stranger's appearance, and consequently between the two there was no connection. From what specially interested himself he passed on, his thoughts turning inquisitively to what should be the purport of the important news and untimely visit and of such haste in journeying as the visitor appeared to have made, and lastly to what, in the confusion of finding himself before a stranger of such haughty demeanour, his understanding had not at the moment grasped, to the words expressing the rigours of the way and its dangers, and to those of the swamps to which he had finally fallen a victim. Gifted with the usual fancy of his race, as the meaning of the words dawned upon him, he imagined all manner of strange impossibilities, and was seized with a terror of the marsh. Leaving the sepoy to the qualms of his selfcreated fear we will follow in the wake of the etraiiger, who by this time had been admitted within the fort, and ushered into the presence of the officer in charge. Of medium height and on the usual lines of the lithe frame of the eastern race his muscular frame was developed from the exertions common to the lot of warriors. Still young, his features were composed in a self-assured expression which gave him the appearance of possessing a wisdom, not often revealed in one of his age; but notwithstanding those signs the flash of his eye showed that no matter which way his reason pointed, it was not always the course he took. Uressed in the usualjfashion of th Moghul Court, his apparel bespoke a high standing there, the design of his personal ornaments and the decorations of the ...