Racquets, tennis, and hockey, lime-cutting,
tent-pegging and other mounted sports are also part of the weekly life;
while friendly visits, given and taken, keep touch with the neighbouring
stations.
The climate of these parts is on the whole eminently healthy and
bracing. True, there are four months of very hot weather, but they get
lost sight of in the keen delight of the other eight. Red cheeks with
buoyant activity and spirits carry their own advertisement.
Thus, briefly described, has been the home of the Guides for upwards of
sixty years; a little kingdom barely a mile square, but full of happy
associations for all who have lived there. It is a quiet, unassuming
spot, which year by year has bred, and sent forth to fight, many a
gallant officer and brave soldier; and which in future years hopes to
keep bright the shining record of great deeds that have gone before.
INDEX
A
Abazai, 96
Abbott, 12
Abdul Mujid, 153-9
Adams, Capt., 162
Adams, Col., 183-4
Afghan War, the, 1878-80, 117-134
Afghanistan, the yeoman armies of, 131
Afridis, the, 47
The Jowaki, 47, 93
Agnew, murder of, 18, 19
general references to, 12
Ahmed Jan, 61
Ajun Khan, 44
Alawi-ke-Serai, 71
Alexandra, Queen, 188
Ali Musjid captured by Guides, 119
Amandara Pass, 181
Amir Dost Mahomed Khan, 60
Amritsar, 31
Anderson, murder of, 19
Archaeological treasures of the Guides, 189
Asmai heights, assaults on, 128
Attock, 67, 68, 94
B
Babuzai, village of, 9-12
Bahaud-din Khan, 120-2
Bajaur, 64
Baldwin, Lt.
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