 When provisions were very low, the Hindoo sepoys entreated their commander to allow them to boil the rice (the only food left) for the whole garrison. ' Your English soldiers,' they said, ' can eat from our hands, though we cannot from theirs — we will...  Reports ... Together with the Minutes of Evidence ... - 160 페이지저자: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the East India Company - 1833전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | 1818 - 590 페이지
...it illustrates the character of the Indian soldiers, well merited to be preserved. When provision* were very low, the Hindoo sepoys entreated their commander...by drinking the water in which it has been boiled.' — We have received this remarkable anecdote from an authority we cannot doubt, as it refers to the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1818 - 574 페이지
...it illustrates the character of the Indian soldiers, well merited to be preserved. When provision* were very low, the Hindoo sepoys entreated their commander...by drinking the water in which it has been boiled.' — We have received this remarkable anecdote from an authority we cannot doubt, ns it refers to the... | |
 | John Malcolm - 1833 - 562 페이지
...allow them to boil the rice (the only food left) for the whole garrison. " Your English sol" diers," they said, " can eat from our hands, though we cannot...ourselves by drinking the water in which it has been During all the wars of Clive, of Lawrence, of Smith, and of Coote, the sepoys of Madras continued to... | |
 | John Malcolm - 1833 - 556 페이지
...and which, as it illustrates the character of the Indian soldiers, well merited to be preserved. When provisions were very low, the Hindoo sepoys entreated...food left) for the whole garrison. " Your English sol" diers," they said, " can eat from our hands, though we cannot " from theirs ; we will allot as... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1837 - 390 페이지
...and which, as it illustrates the character of the Indian soldiers, well merited to be preserved. When provisions were very low, the Hindoo sepoys entreated...from our hands, though we cannot from theirs ; we 1 ' It was by one of our own sepoys' (the Council of Fort St. David observe, in a despatch dated 2nd... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1837 - 388 페이지
...and which, as it illustrates the character of the Indian soldiers, well merited to be preserved. When provisions were very low, the Hindoo sepoys entreated...from our hands, though we cannot from theirs ; we 1 ' It was by one of our own sepoys' (the Council of Fort St. David observe, in a despatch dated 2nd... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1841 - 894 페이지
...their rice, the .only food Ictt • for the whole garrison. " Your English soldiers," said they, " can eat from our hands, though we cannot from theirs; we will allow them as their share every grain of the rice, and subsist ourselves by drinking the water in which,... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1845 - 304 페이지
...consequence appeared unavoidable, the Hindu soldiers entreated their commander to allow them to boil their rice, the only food left, for the whole garrison. ' Your English soldiers,' said they, ' can eat from our hands, though we cannot eat from their's ; we will allow them as their... | |
 | Thornton MacMahon - 1846 - 260 페이지
...soldiers," said they, " can eat from our hands, though we cannot eat from theirs ; we will allow them, as their share, every grain of the rice, and subsist,...by drinking the water in which it has been boiled." A still more striking trait of the deep affection a Hindoo soldier feels for his European comrade is... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1854 - 416 페이지
...consequence, appeared unavoidable, the Hindoo soldiers entreated their commander to allow them to bou their rice, the only food left for the whole garrison. "Your English soldiers," said they, " can eat from our hands, though we cannot from theirs : we will allow them as their share... | |
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