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" Guides had a camp language or patois of their own. Lumsden sought out the men notorious for desperate deeds, leaders in forays, who kept the passes into the hills, and lived amid inaccessible rocks. He made Guides of them ; tempted by regular pay and... "
Lumsden of the Guides: A Sketch of the Life of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Harry Burnett ... - Page 65
by Sir Peter Stark Lumsden, G. R. Elsmie - 1900 - 336 pages
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Life of Field-Marshal Sir Neville Chamberlain: G. C. B., G. C. S. I.

Sir George Forrest - 1909 - 566 pages
...Pushtu, &c., dialects unknown to the men of the plains. In many cases the Guides had a camp-language or patois of their own. Lumsden sought out the men...been seen in the plains but for murder and plunder." l The conspicuous loyalty and bravery shown by the Guides in the Sikh Campaign of 1849 kd Sir Henry...
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