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During their captivity they were always closely
guarded, and allowed to communicate with no one except
through the Khan. A strong guard of 10 men or more,
with rifles, always loaded, never let them more than a
few yards out of their sight; they slept in the same
room and treated them as equals, sharing with them
anything they had, and were probably as much for their
protection as anything else. The officers knew, however,
that any fanatic with a blood feud might try and kill
them at any moment.
When Umra Khan had leisure and was in the same
place, they saw him or his younger brother of Dir every
day, and they do not believe that under any circum-
stances the Chief intended to be the direct cause of
injury to them. On the contrary, they consider that
he treated them very well, and in a straightforward
manner. He gave Lieutenant Edwardes back his own
sword, looted at Reshun, which had been sent to Umra
Khan as a present from Mahomed Isa, and he promised
to try and get Fowler's for him. The two officers were
prisoners for exactly a month.
Boating.
With most English schools cricket in the chief
summer game, but here it labours under two great diffi-
culties ; firstly the impossibility of obtaining a really
good, level, grass-grown pitch and secondly of arrang-
ing a fair number of matches to stimulate keen interest
in the game and encourage constant practice. But with
boating it is or should be different. The Neckar it is
true is by no means an ideal river with its strong
currents, its rapids, its rocks and its shallows, moreover
our boat house is unluckily r mile distant across an
almost treeless plain; still with boats kept up at the new
Bridge surely one would expect greater interest to be
taken in this sport. The arrival of Mr. Welchman, who
rowed for 2 years in the Trinity Hall, Lent boat, naturally
stimulated interest, as a long wanted competent coach
was thus supplied and when the new sliding-pair was
presented to the School, confident hopes of improvement
guarded, and allowed to communicate with no one except
through the Khan. A strong guard of 10 men or more,
with rifles, always loaded, never let them more than a
few yards out of their sight; they slept in the same
room and treated them as equals, sharing with them
anything they had, and were probably as much for their
protection as anything else. The officers knew, however,
that any fanatic with a blood feud might try and kill
them at any moment.
When Umra Khan had leisure and was in the same
place, they saw him or his younger brother of Dir every
day, and they do not believe that under any circum-
stances the Chief intended to be the direct cause of
injury to them. On the contrary, they consider that
he treated them very well, and in a straightforward
manner. He gave Lieutenant Edwardes back his own
sword, looted at Reshun, which had been sent to Umra
Khan as a present from Mahomed Isa, and he promised
to try and get Fowler's for him. The two officers were
prisoners for exactly a month.
Boating.
With most English schools cricket in the chief
summer game, but here it labours under two great diffi-
culties ; firstly the impossibility of obtaining a really
good, level, grass-grown pitch and secondly of arrang-
ing a fair number of matches to stimulate keen interest
in the game and encourage constant practice. But with
boating it is or should be different. The Neckar it is
true is by no means an ideal river with its strong
currents, its rapids, its rocks and its shallows, moreover
our boat house is unluckily r mile distant across an
almost treeless plain; still with boats kept up at the new
Bridge surely one would expect greater interest to be
taken in this sport. The arrival of Mr. Welchman, who
rowed for 2 years in the Trinity Hall, Lent boat, naturally
stimulated interest, as a long wanted competent coach
was thus supplied and when the new sliding-pair was
presented to the School, confident hopes of improvement