Hindoostani

I hurried on in much anxiety, as my wife did not speak Hindoostani, and neither ayah nor bearers spoke English.

No difference can be more marked than between the Hindoostani and the Malay.

On the third occasion he returned, with a bullet-graze on his knee, swearing strange oaths in Hindoostani, and saying that all things were ready.

Once acclimatised, a Hindoostani seems able to stand anything.

It used to be said in my regiment, the 1st Assam Light Infantry Battalion, now 42nd, that Hindoostani recruits spent their first three years’ service in hospital!