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determined to get his own way; however I stuck up for him. At Jehlum one sees a distant range of snow
mountains, foothills of the Himalayas. It was cold but fine journey. Went to club after tea & danced.

Saturday [20 November]

Went to cinema after tea. Otherwise no news.

Sunday [21 November]

Walked in the morning & went to Gujarat in afternoon getting back in time for dinner. Met by the Indian
officer from Jehlum who took me to his house & gave me a really excellent tea, & then inspected some 30
men & chose 16 of them. The house was quite small, close to the Grand Trunk Road. A brother of the
officer was there & their old father also appeared, a fine old man with a long white beard who had fought
with Lord Roberts. All intensely patriotic & very proud of three generations of the family being soldiers.
They are fine people, some of them. They were not very rich but small landowners. The house was very
clean & tidy, furnished with European chairs etc as are most of them out here. The higher class Indians are
far more European than Arabs or Egyptians.