. Memorials of the life and letters of Major-General Sir Herbert B. Edwardes, , , of Oxford; LL. D. of Cambridge . kh Eegimentwas brought up and ordered to hut themselves. Tents were lived in here for six months, in too much heat country—not the neicfhbours, but all Hazilra—to a farewell feast on theKara Hill; and there for three days and nights he might be seen walkingabout among the groups of guests and hecatombs of pots and cauldrons—the kind and courteous host of a whole peofile. What is the result? The district of Hazara, which was notorious forits long-continued stru
. Memorials of the life and letters of Major-General Sir Herbert B. Edwardes, , , of Oxford; LL. D. of Cambridge . kh Eegimentwas brought up and ordered to hut themselves. Tents were lived in here for six months, in too much heat country—not the neicfhbours, but all Hazilra—to a farewell feast on theKara Hill; and there for three days and nights he might be seen walkingabout among the groups of guests and hecatombs of pots and cauldrons—the kind and courteous host of a whole peofile. What is the result? The district of Hazara, which was notorious forits long-continued struggles with the Sikhs, is now about the quietest,happiest, and most loyal in the Punjab.—(H. B. E.) Sir Henry Lawrence also wrote of him thus ; Major James Abbott isof the stuff of the true knight-errant; gentle as a girl in thought, andword, and deed, overflowing with warm aifl-ctions, and ready at all timesto sacrifice himself for his friend or his country; he is at the same time ascientific, courageous, and energetic soldier, with peculiar power of attacli-ing others, especially Asiatics, to his person.—(H. M. L.) bad. IJI 1853.] MlTIXy 7X IIA/.AUA. 223 to he (Irsitrd, without tlie sliclter (»! a Ikhisc ; and iiu-anwliiletlu! ])eoi)k! were f,<)t with diniculty (for they were the rou^hestof workmen, and liad no idea of Enj^lisli requirements), ]jyliberal and daily payments, to build us a small cottage, ITa/iua was a very peaceful, ha])i)y home—a region of Des< ilowers. Wild rose in the hedges, the hawthorn blossom, ** Isitara-clematis, blackberries, oleander, and the cuckoos note re-minded us of England ; and, except just in the hottest sc^asonof the year, the climate was very temperate in a good this we had to do witlujut, for we were the first on theground. Very different is the state of things n(jw (in 1885), andno one could recognize it for the same place where we arrivedand pitched our tents, at the end of a long march from-lullun
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