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at Delhi?’ “Oh, many thousands. We made short work of them. Sir, I caughta dussen or more Sikhs one night trying to exoape from the camp with stolen cartridges in their knapsacke. We blew them to pieces the next morning.” Those stories of deliberate barbarity were related, as hosip- posad, toa sympathizing auditor, with per- fect sang froid. These atrocities were not confined to rebels taken with arms in their hands, for very few prisoners were taken; bat whele villages were arrested on spspi- cioa of “aiding and abetting,” snd thou- sands exeented with a mera form of irial.
I beard often in Iudia of the splendid “loot”? at the capture of Delhi; and in marching through the cotmtry the soldiers could hardly set eyes cn a native prince or a Hindoo palace without exclaiming, “What aplaceto break up!” “What » fellow to loot!” Ttis plain that the Denish-~Anglo- Saxon glill has the taint of She old sea-king robbers in his blood.
It was & maxim of the Portuguese Jesuits that men who live long smong Asiatics sel« dom fail to learn their vices, and this iz often illustrated hera; but the older residents treat the natives with much more kindness than new-comers, especially soldiers, The pompous young sprigs of officers who have just “come out” are the most harsh and cruel masters, In some hotels I noticed the alg- wificant notice, “Gentlemen ara requested not to strike the servants.” No comment is necessary.
