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" From what I have seen of the Turkish service, I do 

 not like it, and shall quit it as soon as the campaign is 

 over. I believe, as a body, they are the most detestable 

 race of people under the sun, and I think that their 

 kingdom will soon pass away into other hands." And 

 speaking of the battle of Balaclava, he says that the 

 Turks who held the redoubts on that occasion "all 

 behaved in an infamous manner, and bolted without 

 hardly firing a shot, leaving the guns to the Bears. The 

 lieutenant-colonel in command was the first to run. He 

 mounted his horse on the approach of the Russians, and 

 told his men to save themselves as best they could." 

 Major Leveson, however, was fully aware of the many 

 merits of the Turkish private soldiers, for in another 

 letter he remarks : " I know that the men are good 

 soldiers if properly led, and that they will follow me, as 

 they have ten times more confidence in us [English 

 officers] than in their own officers." 



After the fall of Sebastopol, in September, 1855, 

 Major Leveson returned to England, and finding it 

 useless to keep on knocking at preferment's door, 

 turned his attention once more to sport, and for the 

 next four years he was shooting chamois in the 

 Bavarian and Italian Alps, wild-fowl on the French 

 rivers and marshes, wild boar and deer in the German 

 forests, ibex among the Caucasian passes, antelopes on 

 the plains of Asia Minor, nylghaus in Thibet, tigers 

 and leopards in the jungles of Wynaad and Nirmohle. 

 His adventures during this period he gave to the world 

 in one of the most spirited and exciting of his books, 

 " Hunting Grounds of the Old World." 



