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Extracts from
Aina and Lower Bengal. Pring "The Firas" Correspondence from Clina in the years 1857 - 1858. Reprinted by permission, with cor- rections by the Author,
George Mugrove Cookte. Fifth Edition. London, 1861.
1.2.78. The coolit
corps are like everything. China anomalies in warfare. They
else in
tehve
of a country about to be invaded, under drill to garry the guns and provisions of the invaders, Each gun has eighteen coolies attached to it, and they are exercised to attend the process of unlimbering, and to take up the gun on their bamboo poles and trot off with pace which might be dangerous, if their Fidelity
Monié rifles in their year. In their work if they
were
with it, at a
in doubt, or if there were wo
their rear. These fellows will
Call
be got or shipboard.
They will not desert for they
better paid
us and would probably be beheaded by
be expected to take
Yeh. They
will s
scarcely
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