text:  To these cherished game-preserves the Ameers clung with a desperate pertinacity which might have moved the sympathy of an English sportsman--"admitting" (says the _Bombay Times_) "that we might strip them of their territory occupy Hydrabad or seize their persons without difficulty; but maintaining that they will never consent to become parties to the act of degradation we insist upon or give their enemies the pretext for charging them with having made over to us by treaty on any consideration whatever the most valued portion of their territory