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Curious Boy of Seven and Royal Camp Life
A vivid colonial sketch describes Pertaub Sing, seven, grandson of the Maharajah Runjeet Sing, riding with jeweled miniature arms and Sikh guards. He boasts a stern reply about hitting an enemy with a matchlock at a hundred yards, while British crowds listen as he parries with wit.
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Pertaub Sing
Sher Sing
Osborne
Runjeet
Roger Bacon
Bacon
Wade
New Zealand Company
Col
Wakefield
Francis, Spaight
Hokianga
Cook’s Straits
Raupero
Ranjeet Singh
Cook
Col. Wakefield
Hiko
Rangaihoro
Ti Pahi
Ehiko
Islands
Rangashiro
Rangai
Tunid
Ort Jackson
Port Nicholson
Lewis
Hiko’s Island
Cook's Strait
Queen Charlotte's Sound
Wanganui
Cape Farewell
Waikamai
Otaki
Waikanui
Queen Charlotte’s Sound
British College of Health
James Morison
New-road
Strand
J. Field
Quadrant
Regent Street
J. Lofts
Park-place
Mile-end-road
Chappell
Lombard Street
Morison
London
N.B
James Hamilton
H.R.H
Duchess of Kent
the Treasury
Grimstone
G.j.guthrie
F.R.S
Penryn Arms Hotel
Bangor
Dublin
T. W. Grimstone
Broad-street
W.bicknell
W. Grimstone
Bloomsbury
Kingstreet
Long-acre
Noccet
Dolore Voluptas
Messrs
Goss and Co
Ae.r.c.surgeons
Lancaster-place