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It would be more dignified, but nothing costs more to keep
up than dignity, and it is perhaps because we have always been guided by
sound commercial principles in this respect that we have attained our
present proud position.
After looking round the fortress and admiring the skill and knowledge
with which it was built, we were conducted by the khan to the shade of
some beautiful chenar trees, which grew near a little spring not far
from the walls of the fort. Here were a number of charpoys, or native
bedsteads, very comfortable, but usually full of bugs, and on these we
sat.
Remembering Maizar, and many other incidents of frontier hospitality,
sentries were posted on all the approaches and a sufficient guard kept
under arms. Then we had breakfast--a most excellent breakfast.
The arrangements for the comfort and convenience of the troops of the
Frontier Force are unequalled. They live more pleasantly and with less
discomfort on active service than does a British regiment at the
Aldershot manoeuvres.


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