KITCHENER IN INDIA
Sir-The talk on Kitchener from 2YC on March 9 recalls an incident which occurred some years ago when I was engaged on a survey in India. In company with a little jungle man I had. climbed a high grassy peak at sunset in the hopes of getting a shot at a sambhur stag, and as we sat in amongst some rocks, he commenced speaking in the quiet manner of these folk. "Does the sahib see that tree down at the head
-- =. a ee ee Se ee, ee — «. — of that small jungle? That was where a big bison bull came out, and the sahib I was with, fired and knocked it over, Then I, being then young. and foolish, ran down to it, but the bull chased and tossed me, and then fell dead. The master came down, and seeing me wounded and covered in blood, took me on his back, and carried me all the way back to his camp, and looked after me until I was well." "And who was this sahib?" I said. "How can I say? His name was Kitchen sahib. But what a fine man!" That night I related the story to my planter host. "Oh, you had that little fellow, did you? Yes, his story is quite true." "But who was the sahib?" "Why, Kitchener of Khartoum. When he was in India he was very keen to get a bison, so they built him a camp and your little man accompanied him as shikari up on these hills. Kitchener carried him two miles, and all the jungle people round here still have a wonderful opinion of Kitchener of Khartoum."
PHILIP
FOWKE
(Plimmerton).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 767, 2 April 1954, Page 5
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280KITCHENER IN INDIA New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 767, 2 April 1954, Page 5
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