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time blood was drawn—however small or large the quantity. The 
doctors were present and could stop the fight any time they 
thought fit. The danger was very small. Between each round 
(three whacks) the sword was wiped with antiseptic carbolic. 
The doctors made an examination after each round, and if a 
man was injured he was neatly stitched up. Sometimes it was 
rather gruesome surgery. It was a game that required a good 
deal of bravery, and it was the only game which the Germans 
played. 

THE LAND OF THE SIKH. 
(Wits Lantern Views.) 
By Mr. E. E. LAFOND, “ Victorian,” M.G.S. 
10th November, 1903. 
After describing the route to India by Aden, one of the 
sentinels of the British Empire, the Lecturer asked the audience 
to accompany him to the Sikh’s country, beginning at Bombay, 
overland to Jubalpur and to Cawnpore, with its memorials of the 
British victims of the mutiny, and from which the shadow of 
Nana Sahib had long since lifted. The palaces, mosques and 
mausoleums, marble baths and other historical associations of 
Agra were described. A hundred and fifty miles further north 
was Delhi, situated on a plateau 600 feet above the level of the 
sea, on the banks of the Jumna, surrounded by strong wall, 
access to the city being by gates. Delhi was to the Mahommedans 
what Jerusalem was to the Jews. Its downfall was completed 
with the mutinous outbreak of 1857, when Delhi threw in its lot 
with the mutineers, and was afterwards stormed and captured, 
and had ever since been under British rule. It is on the border 
of the Sikh country—the Punjab—where the temperature is very 
high, at times 200 degrees in the sun. The whole region was 
practically rainless, but irrigation had converted the desert into 
