Whether it was because from every one they believed themselves in danger or because they simply did not know any better, I still am unable to decide.

With no other army have I seen an officer threaten with a pistol an unarmed civilian.

Were an American or English officer to act in such a fashion he might escape looking like a fool, he certainly would feel like one.

The four soldiers the officer told off to guard us climbed with alacrity into our cab and drove with us until the street grew too narrow both for their regiment and our taxi, when they chose the regiment and disappeared.

We paid off the cabman and followed them.