A VAGABOND IN ASIA. THE UNVEILING OF SHARA. THE MANTLE OF THE EAST. THE GENERAL PLAN. SIRI RAM, REVOLUTIONIST. THE YEAR OF CHIVALRY. THE LONG ROAD TO BAGHDAD. All these sketches, except "The Sikh" and "The Drabi," were written in Mesopotamia. My aim has been, without going too deeply into origins and antecedents, to give as accurate a picture as possible of the different classes of sepoy. In Mesopotamia I met all the sixteen types included in this volume, some for the first time. My acquaintance with them was at first hand. But neither sympathy nor observation can initiate the outsider into the psychology of the Indian soldier; or at least he cannot be certain of his ground. One must be a r…
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