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with the future occupation of Kashmir by British 

 troops, of the railway which it is intended to build, 

 and of the road which was being rapidly constructed 

 from India to the Maharajah's capital. 



It appears a strange thing in the eyes of a new- 

 comer in India what valuable, and at the same time 

 what worthless, servants are found among the natives. 

 No man can exist in a state of constant exasperation. 

 Yet anger, or an imitation of it, seems to be the most 

 effectual method of extracting any unusual amount of 

 work from the latter of these two classes of servants. 

 But among our civilians in the Imperial service, and 

 especially among those who have lived long in India, 

 and hold any responsible position, a self-restraint and 

 politeness is invariably observed towards their native 

 servants, quite at variance with the description I have 

 heard several American globe-trotters give of our 

 treatment of the natives of India (namely, that, as a 

 nation, we govern India admirably, but not so as indi- 

 viduals), because this is a class of Englishmen with 

 which they are not brought into contact. 



These remarks about Indian servants are made with 

 the object of saying that my servant belonged to the 

 former of the above classes of retainers ; he had re- 

 mained for nearly three years with the Afghan Boun- 

 dary Commission, in the service of the now Deputy- 

 Commissioner of Peshawar, who had kindly lent or 

 " loaned" him to me, as one would say "out West," and 

 he had a disposition which was perfectly angelic, and 

 never quarrelled with other servants a most important 



