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 Full view -
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