CHAPTER II 



PESHAWUR AND THE KHYBER PASS 



Are those billions of men really gone ? 



Are those women of the old experience of the earth gone ? 



Do their lives, cities, arts, rest only with us? 



Did they achieve nothing for good for themselves ? 



I believe of all those men and women that filled the unnamed lands, 

 every one exists this hour here or elsewhere, invisible to us. 



WALT WHITMAN. 



BACK again in Mian Mir. It is itself a hideous 

 station and a most unhealthy one. Most of it 

 was originally an old Sikh burying-ground, and it is 

 now known as the " Graveyard of India." For this 

 reason it has not been made as much use of, as a 

 military station, as was at first intended. It possesses 

 a fine church, close to the General's house, where we 

 were staying, and an indifferent polo-ground. 



The ordinary Tommies in India are much to be pitied : 

 people out there are very good to them, getting up 

 sports, matches, sing-songs, and so forth, and I have 

 heard it argued that they are quite " spoiled." At the 

 same time, they have no Society, and when a Tommy 

 wants to be lazy, when he wants to shake off a fit of 

 the " blue devils " and to be amused, to be anywhere 

 but in the sight of the eternal lines and the eternal 



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