Across coveted lands : or, A journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, overland . lacewhen I was in Sistan, and I think it is onlyright that it should be related, as it proves veryforcibly that, as I have continually urged in thisbook, calm and tact, gentleness and fairness, havea greater and more lasting control over Persiansthan outward pomp and red-tape. The Consul and I, after calling on the Amir,proceeded to visit the Sar-tip, the Amirs firstson by his legal wife. The Sar-tip is the headof a force of cavalry, and inhabits a countryhouse, the Chahar Bagh, in a garden to the northoutside
Across coveted lands : or, A journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, overland . lacewhen I was in Sistan, and I think it is onlyright that it should be related, as it proves veryforcibly that, as I have continually urged in thisbook, calm and tact, gentleness and fairness, havea greater and more lasting control over Persiansthan outward pomp and red-tape. The Consul and I, after calling on the Amir,proceeded to visit the Sar-tip, the Amirs firstson by his legal wife. The Sar-tip is the headof a force of cavalry, and inhabits a countryhouse, the Chahar Bagh, in a garden to the northoutside the city. He is a bright and intelligentyouth, who had travelled with Dr. Golam Jelamito India—from which country he had recentlyreturned, and where he had gone to consultspecialists about his sadly-failing eyesight. The Sar-tip, of whom a portrait is here given,received us most kindly and detained us till Ramzam-time we then bade him good-bye, and were riding home when, as we nearedthe Consulate gate, a man who seemed muchexcited rushed to the Consul and handed him. \ The Sar-tit. xviii AFGHANS AND SISTANIS 163 a note from the Belgian Customs officer. As Iwas still convalescent—this was my first outing—and not allowed out after dusk, Major Bennasked me to go back to the Consulate as he wascalled to the Customs caravanserai on suspected nothing until a messenger came tothe Consulate with news. A crowd of some 300Sistanis had attacked some fifteen Afghan camelmen, who had come over with a caravan of teafrom Quetta. These camel drivers had beenpaid several thousand rupees for their services onbeing dismissed, and some money quarrel hadarisen. On the arrival of the Consul the fight was infull swing, and he found a crowd of howlingSistanis throwing stones and bricks at theAfghans. At Major Benns appearance, notwith-standing that their blood was up and theirtemper, one would think, beyond control, theSistanis immediately opened a way for him, someeven te
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