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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1807, 17 October 1874, Page 2

Englishmen Evebywhebe.—As an .example of ihe n.biquitousness of English* men, a curious incident is related in con-: nection with... pur late mission at Kashgar. While the mission was staying ajt Jfasbgar its members often noticed'a man-hanging about the house they occupied whose 1 features where d«cidedly of European cast. Being interrogated, he replied that he was a Kirghiz Tartar. This man was tempoiarily engagers a .mule-driver by o»e of the exploring parties detached from headquarters at Ka?hgaiyafld how he was identified as an JSnglishniaiija curious. Colonel Gordon had been making^pme sketches of the' strange figures and costumes gathered around the camp, and, as is usual in such cases, soon became the centre of an inquisitive and crowd. Our friend the mule-driver was among these, and looking over Colonel Gordon's shoulder, commenced unconsciously to read aloud the remarks written under the various sketches. Col. Gordon encouraged him in^this for somie!tim&, and then, suddenly turning round, said "You are an Englishman P " Upon which the man put his two hands before his face, rushed away as fast as his legs could carry him, and was never seen by the party again. It was conjectured the*; he wai a Crimean deserter, and, in th(J|nt#rests of geography, it is a pity "Ye could not hare been recaptured and brought back to English soil. His adventures would certainly form a startling hiatory. . What is invariably the beginning of love P—The letter L. * It was an expressive remark of a prac* tical man recording the woman of the period recently-?-" She don't know enough sir, to boil water." • • - ;