. Battles of the nineteenth century . TMF. JEWS MARKET, .19 290. OF our recent wars on the frontiers ofIndia, the Hunza campaign was inmany respects the most remarkable,and the storming of the enemysdefences at Nilt afforded an ample proof ofwhat excellent material our Indian army is com-posed. At the extreme north corner of BritishIndia, or rather of the territories of ourfeudatory the Maharajah of Kashmir, buriedamid the loftiest and wildest mountains of theHindoo Koosh, hemmed in by glaciers whichare the vastest in the world outside the arcticregions, and by hundreds of barren leag
. Battles of the nineteenth century . TMF. JEWS MARKET, .19 290. OF our recent wars on the frontiers ofIndia, the Hunza campaign was inmany respects the most remarkable,and the storming of the enemysdefences at Nilt afforded an ample proof ofwhat excellent material our Indian army is com-posed. At the extreme north corner of BritishIndia, or rather of the territories of ourfeudatory the Maharajah of Kashmir, buriedamid the loftiest and wildest mountains of theHindoo Koosh, hemmed in by glaciers whichare the vastest in the world outside the arcticregions, and by hundreds of barren leagues ofrock and snow, are two little States of heredi-tary robbers, the Hunzas and the Nagars, thefirst occupying the right bank, the second theleft bank of the Hunza or Kanjut people belong to what is known as theDard race, and are supposed to be of the purestAryan stock : many of them have the featuresand the fair complexions of Europeans. This inhospitable region is the very cradle,some say, of the Aryan race ; and the Hunza-Nagars present one of the mo
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