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618 appreciate the sterling qualities of the real soldier, can well afford to smile in silence at their puny efforts.

We have thus endeavoured to trace the career of our Indian troops, through all their glorious vicissitudes, from their earliest formation to the present day. But though we feel our own incompetence to the task, we trust enough has been said to prove to the people of England that, under all circumstances, and in any crisis that may supervene from the machinations of foreign or domestic foes, they can look with confidence to the East for a numerous, well-disciplined, and well-appointed army of Sepoys, almost as brave as their European comrades, and for every purpose of the field equally competent, in all places where their physical powers are not paralysed, as in Affghanistan, by the severity of the climate.

THE END.

LONDON: CLARKE AND BEETON, PRINTERS, BOUVERIE STREET, FLEET STREET.