Excerpt from With the Dutch in the East: An Outline of the Military Operations in Lombock, 1894
In various articles relating to matters connected with the Indian army and to the Atcheen war, we have endeavoured to explain the wants of the Indian army, to give an insight into the life of the Indian soldier, to awaken sympathy for that army of which our own people know too little and which therefore often receives but scant recognition and is with difficulty rendered efficient for its task.
With this question ever before us, was it possible for us to refuse the flattering request of our former comrade, in collaboration with whom we published "A Beautiful page from Atcheen"s history," once more to join hands and undertake a similar task?
We labour under no delusions as to the difficulties attached to writing about an expedition not yet belonging to the past.
Ought we then to have waited until the interest and sympathy for our troops, now at its height, had gradually subsided? We have decided otherwise and propose to strike while the iron is hot!" Unfortunately our doing so is subject to certain disadvantages, for in spite of even effort to be accurate and correct, mistakes arc bound to occur and For these Ave beg the indulgence of our readers.
Under these circumstances it is but natural, that from the critic"s Point of view, we shall only occupy a very modest place.
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