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guest prevents the expression of simple truth that may lead to any sort of discussion at a personal interview and would have written to His Highness about the matter and got a reply very different to that which he got at his interview." Much truth there may be in this.
To-day is the great Lunghurday of Mohorrum. All His Highness's regiments pass through certain streets in the city in consideration of the family and rank of particular individuals to-day and give an outsider an opportunity of admiring the regular and the irregular military pagentry—you must remember we have 'irregulars' consisting of sepoys, good, bud and indifferent, tall, short and dwarfish, shoeless and turbandless, sherwanied and under-vested, as well as regulars'—in this God-governed country.
