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TEN YEARS IN INDIA,
AND
THREE YEARS IN SOUTH AFRICA,
IN THE
CAPE CORPS LEVIES.
TEN YEARS IN INDIA,
IN THE
16TH QUEEN'S LANCERS.
AND
THREE YEARS IN SOUTH AFRICA,
IN THE CAPE CORPS LEVIES.
| FIRST AFGHAN CAMPAIGN. | ||
| THE MAHARATTA WAR. | ||
| THE SHEIK WAR. | ||
INCLUDING BATTLES OF
| GHUZNEE, | CABUL, | |
| MAHARAJPOOR, | BUDDEWAL, | |
| ALIWAL, | SOBRAON, |
AND KAFFIR WAR OF 1850-51.
REPLETE WITH ANECDOTES—INCIDENTS INSEPARABLE FROM MILITARY LIFE—MANNERS
AND CUSTOMS OF THE SEVERAL INDIAN RACES, MAHOMEDANS, HINDOOS AND
KAFFIR TRIBES—TALES OF ELEPHANT HUNTING, ETC., ETC.
BY
W. J. D. GOULD,
Formerly Sergt. 16th Queen's Lancers, "The Terror of India,"
afterwards Lieut. Cape European Levies.
Toronto:
HUNTER, ROSE & COMPANY, WELLINGTON ST.
MDCCCLXXX.
Entered according to the Act of the Parliament in Canada, in the year onethousand eight hundred and eighty, by W. J. D. Gould, in the Office ofthe Minister of Agriculture.
TO
HIS EXCELLENCY,
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
John Douglas Sutherland Campbell,
K.T., K.C.M.G.
MARQUIS OF LORNE,
GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA,
&c., &c., &c.
This Work is Dedicated
BY THE AUTHOR, WHO, AS HE HAS PASSED THE MEREDIAN, AND IS
NOW APPROACHING THE LIMIT OF HIS EARTHLY EXISTENCE,
LOOKS BACK WITH FEELINGS OF PRIDE, ON THE
HUMBLE PART HE TOOK, AS ONE OF THE OLD
16th QUEEN'S LANCERS,
IN ALL THE MEMORABLE ENGAGEMENTS IN WHICH THEY PARTICIPATED
IN INDIA,
AND
NOT THE LEAST OF