72 THE FORESTS OF UPPER INDIA 



which in feeling and manner he ver\' often is. Some 

 people think that the ' nigger,' as they call him — though 

 he is no more a negro than a red native of Canada is an 

 Indian — cannot be managed except by thrashing, and 

 that the only language he understands is gross abuse of 

 himself and his maternal relations. I have in many years 

 never but twice had occasion to strike a native, and have 

 found both hill-men and plains-men, paharis and daissis, 

 Mussulmans and Hindus, high caste and low, as a rule 

 most faithful and sincerely attached to the sahib whose 

 service they have undertaken and whose salt they have 

 eaten ; and in many cases I have met with men whose 

 courage, high principle, and honourable feeling would do 

 honour to the most educated Christian gentleman. 



