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these ruffians in the act, a trap was laid for them, the 

 desperate resistance they were to offer not having 

 been anticipated. The captain of police and his 

 lieutenant, both English officers, concealed themselves, 

 with a few friends and native police, in a bungalow 

 which had been fixed upon for robbery. Two Pathans 

 entered the garden about two o'clock in the morning ; 

 and a stone, skilfully thrown by one of them, killed 

 the dog at once. At first they mistook the police for 

 their comrades ; but, on discovering their mistake, 

 they fought so furiously with stones and Avith their 

 long knives, that it was not until they were, literally 

 speaking, cut down that they could be secured. Cap- 

 tain M., who at Meeanee had killed several Beluches 

 in hand-to-hand conflict, had some of his teeth 

 knocked down his throat by a stone which one of 

 the robbers hurled. 



The horse-dealers and merchants encamped at the 

 Fairshed perpetrated no such crimes ; and though 

 they must have been sorely tempted to rob each 

 other, they wisely abstained. Perhaps it was difficult 

 for them -to do so ; for each party had its watchful 

 guardians, in the shape of those large, shaggy, dun- 

 coloured savage bear-dogs, which are to be found 

 among all the mountains which sweep from Cape 

 Monze up to the sources of the Indus, and round to 

 Thibet. The appearance of these animals is usually 

 something between that of a Newfoundland and a 

 dog of the St Bernard breed ; but in some of them a 



