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had dealt kindly with him ; and as he had managed, 

 by hook or by crook, to amass a sufficient quantity of 

 gear and sundries to enable him to smoke his pipe in 

 comfort for the remainder of his life, he had given up 

 all intentions of joining his regiment again. In camp, 

 before Sevastopol, during the siege, he was a well- 

 known character, glorying in the name of " Ingleese 

 Jonnie," for, by dint of "wrinkles" picked up from 

 an old corporal of Zouaves, my chef de cuisine, and 

 sundry lessons from poor old Soyer, now, alas ! gone 

 to " kingdom come," he was no despicable cook, and 

 formed a great addition to any party "sub tegmine 

 fagi" whether out foraging in front of the enemy near 

 Baidar, or picnicking with amateur campaigners at the 

 Monastery of St. George. 



The second, Ahmed, was a Koord, one of the 

 followers of the Princess Kara Fathama, and a "mu- 

 lassim," or lieutenant, of Bashi-Bazouks ; a fearless, 

 devil-may-care kind of fellow, who, having received 

 some fancied insult and extortion from a Pacha, hated 

 all Turkish authorities like poison, and seemed to 

 glory in setting them at defiance. He was strikingly 

 handsome, a splendid horseman, a famous fellow in a 

 brush, and the beau ideal of a Bashi-Bazouk. 



The third, Ali, commonly called " Kutchuc" (the 

 Little One), was a Nubian of colossal proportions and 

 gigantic strength, who was devoted to me, I having 

 saved him from the Cossacks in an affair on the 



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