 | England - 1877 - 798 pages
...was formerly only sufficient brackish water for a squadron of horse, there are now tanks and wells. Peace, plenty, and perfect security everywhere prevail...one hand, or a pathless silent desert on the other." Certain critics of Lord Lytton's frontier policy have condemned, with much scorn, the Viceroy's idea... | |
 | John Jacob - 1858 - 560 pages
...bazars containing some four hundred well-stocked shops. On the formerly desert border of Upper Sind there are now always supplies for an army, without...years, under the direction of the Commissioner in Sind, roads and bridges have been constructed by me all over the country, in communication with the... | |
 | John Jacob - Great Britain - 1858 - 520 pages
...bazars containing some four hundred well-stocked shops. On the formerly desert border of Upper Sind there are now always supplies for an army, without...years, under the direction of the Commissioner in Sind, roads and bridges have been constructed by me all over the country, in communication with the... | |
 | Joseph Kingsmill - British - 1859 - 356 pages
...interference on the part of the State in any way. Where there was formerly only brackish water, insufficient for a squadron of horse, there are now tanks and wells,...formerly all was terror and disorder on the one hand, and a pathless, silent desert on the other. By the unaided superintendence of General Jacob, roads... | |
 | Scotland - 1877 - 812 pages
...was formerly only sufficient brackish water for a squadron of horse, there are now tanks and wells. Peace, plenty, and perfect security everywhere prevail...one hand, or a pathless silent desert on the other." Certain critics of Lord Lytton's frontier policy have condemned, with much scorn, the Viceroy's idea... | |
 | Alexander Innes Shand - Generals - 1900 - 412 pages
...have been excavated which are bringing great part of the desert under cultivation. Peace, plenty, and security everywhere prevail in a district where formerly...all was terror and disorder on the one hand, or a pitiless, silent desert on the other." He had obtained permission to supplement his corps with 100... | |
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State at all, in any way. Where there was formerly only sufficient brackish water for a squadron of horse, there are now tanks and wells affording an unlimited supply of excellent fresh water. Peace, plenty, and perfect security everywhere prevail in... 