text:  They are ill at ease in the European saddles and have no confidence in the regulation swords when opposed to the trenchant edge of the native _tulwars_; while on the other hand the laurels earned by Skinner's Hearsay's and other well-known corps of irregular horse might almost have induced the military authorities in India to follow the example of the Mahrattas who never attempted to extend to their cavalry the European discipline which they bestowed on their infantry