The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 13: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. ry here and there haughty Brahmins conspire against the powers that be. Thus we read of a periodical outbreak such as necessi- tated the Chitral campaign; or the more recent uprising in the Tochi Valley near the Afghan border, when that notorious fanatical priest, the Mullah of Powindah struck a column of. Sikhs and Punjab infantry, doing great damage before his savage Waziri tribesmen were beaten off. Knowing these facts, therefore, those who look be- neath the surface can detect an undercurrent of discon- tent, and catch the mutterings of vassals who in secret rebel against the galling yoke. Perhaps, were the matter carefully examined into, certain outside influences might be found ‘to bave a finger in the pie; for the people of the great White Czar of the North have for many years cast a covetons eye toward fair Jndia, and their diplomacy has long- been extended toward the borders of the Himalayas, across the Aighan frontier, and covering that debatable ground of Nepaul, where dwell heroic people who refuse to bend the knee to any European potentate. On this afternoon in question, standing upon the Bhendy Bazar Road, at a busy point of the daily mart, where throngs pass, and something of remarkable inter- est catches the eye at every turn of the head, a man comicbooks.com