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THE HORSE AND THE WAR 



New issues at a Remount Depot. About to start for the Front. 



allj'parts and castes of India, were happy, if happiness can be said to depend 

 largely on the well-filled stomach. Certainly their rations are bountiful, 

 since each man is entitled per day to 20 oz. of flour ; 2 oz. of dal or pulse ; 

 3 oz. of ghee (clarified butter) ; 3 oz. of sugar or goor (Indian molasses) ; 

 I oz. of spices ; 8 oz of vegetables ; 2 lb. of wood or coal ; i oz. of condensed 

 milk ; and, in the case of non-meat eaters, 7 oz.^ — the Jats, for instance, do 

 not eat meat — J an oz. of tea ; and 8 oz. of meat to the meat eaters. Live 

 sheep and goats are issued to the native butchers, the Sikhs slaughtering with 

 one blow of a sword or tulwar, and the Mohammedans by cutting the throat, 

 at the same time saying a prayer. 



It was after all a pleasure and an instruction to see, so far west of the 

 Nile, this unique Remount Camp. It represented Ihe harnessing of the 

 forces of West and East in an eminently successful degree ; and when the war 

 is a thing of the past it will be interesting to recall the days when this parti- 

 cular spot in the South of France was a scene of great activity. One will 

 remember the perfect setting in the valley of vineyards, and the panoramic 

 glories of the guardian mountains, their peaks showing clear and defined 

 through vague and fleecy wreaths of morning mist. There will be memories 

 of the Indian bazaar, the sharp ejaculatory cries in Hindustani tongues, the 

 babble of the syces, the cooks, the bhisties, and the sweepers, and at all times 

 the faint sickly smell of the burning ghee. Outlasting all will be the link it 



