 | Charles Rathbone Low - India - 1873 - 610 pages
...gigantic gallows, and covered with streamers of the same colours as the boats, and of the same materials. Under this arch, as they called it, the whole army...such an absolute caricature of anything triumphal." What an anti-climax ! How this laughter must have jarred upon the nerves of the lord of these big battalions... | |
 | Charles Rathbone Low - 1873 - 612 pages
...gigantic gallows, and covered with streamers of the same colours as the boats, and of the same materials. Under this arch, as they called it, the whole army...such an absolute caricature of anything triumphal." What an anti-climaz ! How this laughter must have jarred upon the nerves of the lord of these big battalions... | |
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... beggars the powers of our language to express any adequate idea of its appearance. An officer who was an eye-witness attempts a description of it :— '' It was a scaffolding of bamboos, resembling a gigantic gallows, and covered with streamers of... 