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London, England, 1857-10-03 00:00:00

NUJOOR JEWARREE'S STORY.

The writer of the following is described as one of
our spies. He belongs to the Ist Native Infantry,
and is said to be a most intelligent man :
When the mutiny broke out at Cawnpore he was with
three companies of his regiment, the first, or Willis Pultun,
at Banda. On the breaking out of the sepoys at Band I,
Nujoor Jcwarree saved the life of a Mr. Duncan and his
wife I Mr. Duncan was a writer, and instructed this man
in English), by concealing them in his hut, and afterwards
reporting to the Rajah that they were willing to turn M ns•
sulmans. For this the sepoy tell into ill odour with his
comrades, and when the mutineers marched into Cann•
pore the Nana took away from him all he had—about
300 rs.--end confined him with four more sepoys in the
same holm. with the Europeans. At the ft4ht of Futtev
pore he was released by the Nana, went back to the
tiuntlee Nuddee, and thence came over to the English.
His account of the Nana's treacherous attack on the

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boatsand the escape and recapture of one of the boats

is as follows :
When the Nana's guns opened on the boat in which
Wheeler Sahib, the general, was (it has now been fully
ascertained from servants and others who were with the
English party that General Wheeler was not dead before
the massacre, but was put wounded on board the boats) he
cut its cable and dropped down the river. Some little way
down the boat got stuck near the shore. The infantry and
guns came up and opened fire. The large gun they could
not manage, not knowing how to work the elevating screw,
and did not use it. With the small gun they fired grape
tied up in bags, and the infantry fired with their muskets.
This went on all day. It did not hurt the Sahib•log much.
They returned the fire with their rifles from the boat, and
wounded several of the sepoys on the bank, who therefore
drew off towards evening. The sepoys procured a very big
boat, into which they all got, and dropped down the river
upon the Sahib's boats. Then the Sahibs tired again with
their rifles and wounded more sepoys in the boat, and they
drew off and left them. At night came a great rush of
water in the river, which floated off the Sahib's boat, and
they passed on down the river, but owing to the storm and
the dark night they only proceeded three or four koss. In
the meantime intelligence of the Sahib's defence had reached
the Naua, and he sent off that night three more companies
of the native regiment (Ist Oude Infantry/ and surrounded
the Sahib's boat, and so took them and brought then► back
to Cawnpore. Then came out A that boat sixty Sabina and
twenty-five mem-Sahibs and four children—one boy and
three half-grown girls. The Nana then ordered the mem
Sahibs to be separated from the Sahibs to be shot by the
Gillis Pultun (Ist Bengal Native Infantry); but they said,
" We will not shoot Wheeler Sahib, who has made our
Pultun's name great, and whose son is our quartermaster;
neither will we kill the Sahib log. Put them in prison."
Then said the Nadir,, Pultun, " What word is this? Put
them in prison ; we will kill the male." So the Sahib-
log were seated on the ground, and two companies of the
Nadire Pultun placed themselves over against them, with
their muskets ready to fire. Then said one of the mem-
Sahibs,—the doctor's wife she was, I don't know his name,
but he was either superintending-surgeon or medical
storekeeper—" I will not leave my husband ; if he must
die I will die with him." So she ran and sat down behind
her husband, clasping him round the waist. Directly she
said this the other mem Sahibs said, "We will also die
with our husbands," and they all went and sat down beside
their husbands. Then their husbands said, "Go back,"
but they would not. Whereupon the Nana ordered his
soldiers, and they going in pulled them forcibly away,
seizing them by the arm : but they could not pull away
the doctor's wife, who there remained. Then just as the
sepoys were going to fire, the padre (chaplain) called out
to the Nana and requested leave to read prayers before
they died. The Nana granted it. The padre's bonds were
unloosed so far as to enable him to take a small book out
of his pocket, from which he read ; but all this time one
of the Sahib•logs, who was shot in the arm and the
leg, kept crying out to the sepoys, "If you mean to kill
us, why don't you set about it quickly and get :he work
done ? Why delay ?" After the padre had read a few prayers
he shut the hook, end the Sahib-log shook hands all round.
Then the sepoys fired. One Sahib rolled one way, one
another, as they sat ; but they were not dead, only wounded ;
so they went in and finished them off with swords. After
this the whole of the women and children ( that is, in-
cluding those taken out of other boats), to the number of
11.2, were taken away to th 3 yellow house, which was your
hospital. This was the Bhitoor Rajah's house in the civil
lines, where I and four other sepoys were confined, and
where I had the opportunity of talking to the sergeant-
major's wife. After this, when we (sepoys) were taken
down with the Nana to Futteypore, the women and
children were taken away to the house where they were
afterwards murdered.
Were any of our women dishononred by the Nana or his
people? None that I know of, excepting in the case of
General Wheeler's youngest daughter, and about this I
am not certain. This was her circumstance. As they
were taking the mem-Sahibs out of the boat a sowar
(cavalry man) took her away with him to his house. She
went quietly ; but at night she rose and got hold of the
sowar's sword. He was asleep; his wife, his son, and his
mother-in-law were sleeping in the house with him. She
killed them all with the sword, and then she went and
threw herself down the well behind the house. In the
morning, when people came and found the dead in the
house, the cry was, " Who has done this?" Then a neigh-
bour said that in the night he had seen some one go and
throw himself into the well. They went and looked, and
there was Missed Baba, dead and swollen.

PRIVATE LETTERS.

Carnp before Delhi, July 25th.

We are stilt in statu quo before Delhi, not being
strong enough to besiege it or take it by escalade.
We are waiting for reinforcements, an I in the mean-
time have to repel frequent sorties and act upon the
defensive, which is very harassing work. The bat-
teries on both sides blaze away at each other, but
do little damage, being 1,500 yards distant. We
have suffered a good deal from cholera, having lost
about 50 men, since leaving Ferozepore, out of 430,
chiefly from cholera, but also from sunstroke and
men killed and died of wounds. I will begin from
the 14th, an! give you a short account of our
doings. On that day, at ten a.m., the alarm sounded,
and we were sent to reinforce a picket on the left,
the sepoys having come out of the Cashmere-gate.
The guns on both sides blazed away like anything.
One 10-inch shell fell within eight yards of me, and
a number of others. I heard it coming, and threw
myself down behind a tree. I heard it fall quite