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'Telegraph and travel. A narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's Government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines.' [‎27] (60/782)

The record is made up of 1 volume (673 pages). It was created in 1874. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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i.] MEMOIR OF COLONEL FAT RICK STEWART. 27
The next morning there was delay in procuring buffa
loes, and the party had to go to work without them.
The blood of the wounded animal being, moreover, dry,
it was difficult to ascertain her precise locality. Division
of opinion as to her movements ensued, the trail became
lost, and there was a partial separation of the guns.
Stewart appears to have been hidden from his com
panions by intervening bushes, when, crouching in a
comparatively open part of the jungle, the tigress saw
him approach and unexpectedly dashed on him. Struck
down to the ground, he remained motionless. From his
own account, he had no inclination to call out; and well
that it was so. A strange necessity is that of suppressino-
all signs of the life it is man's instinct as well as duty
to preserve. His enemy passed him, but soon returned
to seize him by the left calf, changing to the thigh in an
attempt to carry him off. Thinking her victim dead, she
dropped him from her mouth, then struck him with her
closed paw and left him, not, however, till she had
inflicted no less than thirteen indelible wounds. On
being found by his companions, he helped them for the
moment in binding up his own wounds, but soon sank
into a kind of delirium. He was put upon a litter, taken
into Chunar, and by care and skill enabled in a few weeks
to resume his wonted occupations.
A letter from the highest authority in India expressed
to a mutual friend how grieved he had been to learn the
serious accident just related, and added a characteristic
message for delivery to the sufferer, when recovered, that
he deserved a " skelping, for exposing a life that we all
expect to be a useful one."
Were this a biography instead of a brief memoir,
many pages might be filled with Stewart's experiencrs

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Telegraph and travel. A narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's Government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines.

Author: Colonel Sir Frederic John Goldsmid, CB, KCSI. Late Chief Commissioner Indo-European Telegraph; British Commissioner for settlement of the Perso-Baluch Frontier (1870-71) and Arbitrator in the Perso-Afghan boundary question (1872-73).

Publication details: London. Macmillan and Co., 1874. R Clay, Sons and Taylor, printers, Bread Streat Hill.

Physical Description: xiv, [2], 673, [3]p., [8] leaves of plates (2 folded): ii, maps, portrait; 23cm (8º).

Ownership: With stamps of the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Library and embossed stamp of the "Secretary of State for India Library". Marginal ms. annotations in a contemporary hand in ink on pages 101, 194, 196, 264 and 527.

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1 volume (673 pages)
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This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references, along with a list of illustrations giving titles and page references. There is also an index which begins on page 661.

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Dimensions: 232mm x 156mm

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'Telegraph and travel. A narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's Government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines.' [‎27] (60/782), British Library: Printed Collections, V 21450, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023636850.0x00003d> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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