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Excerpt from Life of Field-Marshal Sir Neville Chamberlain, G. C. B., G. C. S. I
Cape. The letters written by him during his long tour in the Transvaal convey the fresh and bright impressions of the moment, and so afford us a faithful picture of the country as it was sixty years ago. The frank and unconscious way he describes his dangerous adventures when shooting lions will recommend these letters to the taste of the sportsman.
The story of the siege of Delhi is now a familiar tale. The letters of Neville Chamberlain, written during that siege, are of the greatest interest and utility. They differ in some important respects from any other narrative. They also reveal for the first time the vital importance of the services which Neville Chamberlain, though wounded, rendered his country. In order to appropriate this important material I had to tell again brie?y the story of the great siege, and in doing so I have borrowed from my 'history of the Indian Mutiny, ' on the old principle that a man may once say a thing as he would have it said; he cannot say it twice.
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