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1894.] E. Vansittarfc— Tribes, Clans, and Castes of Nepal. 
Captain Young exclaimed ‘ That gallant fellow shall not be left unassisted,’ and 
in a moment dropped from the elephant and placed himself close to the sepoy. He 
looked along the levelled barrel, but to no purpose ; the brute was not to be distin¬ 
guished. 
Cocking his gun, therefore, he told the Gurkha to fire; there was a terrific roar, 
a rush forward for one instant, and all was still. When the smoke had just cleared 
away, there lay the tiger perfectly dead. The ball had struck the centre of his fore¬ 
head and entered his brain.” 
Dr. Oldfield in liis book points out that there is not a single 
instance of a Nepal chief taking bribes from, or selling himself for 
money to the British or any other State. This loyalty to themselves 
is only equalled by their loyalty to us during the fiery ordeal of the 
Mutiny, the records of which, as well as of Ambeyla, of the Kabul 
campaign, and many other wars and battles, amply testify the value of 
the services rendered us by our Gurkha regiments since incorporation in 
our army in 1815. 
Their fighting qualities, whether for sturdy, unflinching courage 
or enduring elan, are nulli secundus amongst the troops we enrol in our 
ranks from the varied classes of our Indian Empire, and no greater 
compliment can be paid to their bravery than by quoting one of their 
sayings— 
Kafar human hhandd mannu ramro ! 
“ It is better to die than to be a coward ! ” 
