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London, England, 1857-09-11 00:00:00

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the contrary, most faithful, and were sevt.l4,4- , i st ''' c•;:qe
the Maj er's absence, and were in grtrefreei44/ele e .
pain through hearing he and I had bedsk tellarelN --er, : • re ,"
were actually weeping, and were deternaiiiterW o et 4Jfurther till we came, or at least the ilerajlltcde- . -.' _
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joined them at Mal ea on the 15.1), a-c-nikte.,, Ti.
Rajah had treatel us ill; he feared to sheltk4ee, At S
the rebels should hear of it. The dak from Agra carrel
in during the day, and be took heart, and then let it le
known we were with him, giving us a carriage and feu
to get to Malwa. There we found all the Nowgurig
Christians, save two bandsmen, and the woman who
was Ler emit to you fi r two hours; and then made a great
rumpuss about the children, and left you. I thick she
then must have gone with the mutineers. The Chri,.
Vans had hid themselves ti 1 they could get away. I
half 1, ar that one drummer, George Dick, the African,
was kil ed by men of the 14th, near Mho w. Mr. Carma,
at llrlwa, was very kind, and we stayed at his house
till the night of the 170. He could not get people to
obey, and had got the Churkhares Rajah to take care of
the district for him. Oa the 17:1 we moved off routh•
wards, to get to the Ganger:. No tents for any one. I
had brought a cartload of wine, etc., from Nowgnog.
and a little tea I found on the road behind my house. It
was useful while we had it. Oer guide took us off the
proper read to a village, full of men ; we found them
a'l ready armed with clubs, seemingly dreading us We
passed through. I had ord, red the whole not to enter
till I came back from a visit, and was determined not to
enter it. Some one said I had seat word 4, move on, and
when too late I found the party in the village. The road
lay on through a pass between two hills. We camped
opposite it under trees. The hills were covered with
men, some armed ; some were in the pass, too. I
thought they feared us, and went towards them ; so did
Jackson, and said they had nothing to fear. By noon a
message came that we must give 1,000 rupees, or we
should not pass. I told the men to get ready to force a
passage at four, and all were in high spirits for a while.
But some time after, to my horror, a native efficer saute
and said we must pay the money. We had a Lug con-
sultation about it, and resolved that we must either
allow the transaction or be left by the Some, s e 700
were paid thesheed of the party and 300 tnore promised
on our getting safe to Callingur. The man was to aid
us by the way. It was very humilialme, but after all
our anger, we had to agree.
" We had nearly 40 women and children to look
after, and 79 men were quite unable to protect them
on the march, and they were the real masters now.
All our orders were obeyed, and the men were ser-
vants to us, cleaning our horses, &e., but we could not
enforce their presence with us on our way Next
morning at daybreak the men who held the pa-le
fired into us. Our men fired in the air, or without
an aim, and then fell back. The major now came to his
senses, and was himself, from being a child, who spoke
of a mango, or something to eat or drink, as if it were
his life, and he and Jackson and Franks did their best
to bring the men up to the attack, but they all melted
away fest panic•stricken. Poor Barber never had strength
to do anything from the moment we started. Ewart, poor
To mnsend, and I kept our ground with a few men, 10
or 12, who stood by us, and fired away at the rascals.
One of them afterwards saw the drum-major elsewhere,
and said we had killed 14. I raw none fall. I could not
go for more men, lest the few that were standing should
follow me. We kept the rascals at a distance, and beg
out of shot of the women. At la t poor Townsend fell,
slew, through the breast ; he said, " My God, I am hit,"
and fell, turning over and over. I lifted him, and saw the
blood coming from his heart. I said, "I think we must
go." At any rate, we all moved back. The main party
were a long way off, the men, I ain ashamed to say,
walking very quick. I knelt beside the poor fellow when
we were lett alone, and prayed that he might speedily
rise in the resurrection to joy. I brought away his s word
and lefe the body. He was a brave warmhearted fellow,
aid would have been a flue officer. We walked or rode
ait day till 3 p.m. ; not a buggy or carriage was brought
away. Mr. Mawe and Mr. Smalley walked from day-
light till past noon on foot. I was alone in the rear all the
tirne, with some of the women and tvo children. I sent
E evert on to find out where the main body had gone, as
they were a long way out of sight. He seems to nave
lost his senses with the sun, for he told the carps I was
in a city close to them, when I was miles behind ; the
main party rushed on, and every one had to follow as
they best could. Our enemas foilow, d till we came to a
native chief's lands, and then st piled. A village fired
on us, and we were threatened on every side. Mr. Carne,
who had joined us, left us now, and went to the Ghor-
koree Rajah, who took him in and protected him.
My part that day was terrible. I bad to try to lug
along two fat old women, while I carried three child-
ren on my horse, and tried to keep back the Senor;
who were with me. • The senior hevildar got more and
more savage, and wanted me to leave the children
and women, but I would not, and, thank God, they did
not leave us. I came at last to Mr. Smalley sitting be-
side his wife; she seemed dead, but it was doubtful, so I
took her up before me, and gave a boy to my writer who
had got hold of my horse. I was on poor Townsendhe
and I went on thus some distance. It was a most ardu-
ous task to keep the utterly inert body on the horse, as
I placed her as women ride ; but after awhile she seemed
dead. I held a consultation about it, and we left the
body. I then got on foot. I was lame from an awful
kick of a horse, and had only a strip of cloth on onefoot,
but poor Smalley was worse off, and he got on my horse
and Mrs. Tien. behind ; her two children each got a
seat on the two horses, and thus I reached the main body.
I found on the way a golosh the poor major had dropped
—it was very useful to me. At noon the sergeant-
major died before mein the most awful way of apoplexy
—he fell as if struck. rose and fell, and staggered.
" The major ero I reached had died of the sun too. I
had lost sight of some of my party. I went slowly, and
did all I could for them, but I was obliged, the country
being so hostile, to join the main body, and save those
on my horses. The Sepoya were very glad to see me ;
they feared I had been murdered, as Malwa ; Ewart
bad said I had entered it with biro, and that we bad
been fired at there, and that I had not come away. He
went in alone, when I was miles behind him. His ima-
gination was for a long time quite destroyed. For the
remainder of the day we moved on as a par: y of officers
escorted by rebel Sepoys to be killed at Banda by a
Newab. The ruse took, and we were allowed to paten
We entered and passed through a large city. Then were
fed by it. I heard our men say, ' They are great peop •
people, the Sahibs ; we must treat them as such, and
entertain them ere killing them.' The citymen assented,
We had an opportunity few have of knowing natives—
hundreds surrounded us as we sat on the ground and ate
chupattees and native sweetmeats. Not one said an
uncivil word. Some said our rule had been very just--
some expressed sorrow—some, it struck rne, did their
utmost to get a few of us killed for the amusement of
the city. At length all cleared off, it being dark. A`l
the baudmen and their women were gone to the city
to make terms of some sort, or to shift for them.
selves. The Sepoys told us respectfully we must shift
for ourselves ; they could not protect us, as all the coun•
try was against un We all mounted our horses—Dr. and
Mrs. Mawe on Mr. Townsend's horse that I lent them ;
Mr. Smalley and his child on my own. I was able to
walk.

We suffered terribly from thirst that n'glit and next
morning till it was light. We saw a well close to where
we had slept ; we sought in a wrong direo'ion at first.
We had slept near a real; had we discovered it we woul I
have gone to a distance for fear of being discovered. It
was a mercy we did not. In the morning we were at-
tacked by villagers with long bamboos, who came about
us in numbers that increased every moment. Their yells
were horrible, so devilish, though we had done nothing.
We fired pistols, and missed them. I was commanding,
and kept in the rear with Ewart, facing about now and
then, and stopping the ruffians. I was horribly ham-
pered with Mr. Smalley behind me and little Lotty in
my arms. I missed the ruffians when I fired, but they
missed me too. At last some armed 'ntie and foot men
j fined from the road, and then a Mrs. Kirchoff, who
with her husband, a sergeant under poor Powys, had
joined us at Malwa, fell off her horse. I had a r'nffi.in
with a lance poised at me, and another brandishing one
of their long bamboos, I had neither hand free, and
missed the spearman. My two friend:, however, missed
me, and as I could do nothing on horseback, and the
woman's husband seemed quite unable to put her on her
horse again, I was wanting to get off and fight on foot,
feeling wo could not leave the woman, when off went
my horse at such a gallop. I had only a string fur a
bridle, and had to hold Lotty, and c..uld do nothing, to
:top the horse that was always a runaway and hard
stop. Frank's son canto thunderieg up, and my horse
got worse. I was angry, not knowing Frank was chased
by a loose horse. At .ast we got near a frightfel
smash
I exeected the horse to leap into, when he yielded, and,
turning to the right, stopped soon, and I thoug'ut all
must have been murdered by some who might have rid-
den off, and so we moved on, sad, as you may suppose.
1.
now found my pror horse bad bean pierced ea the right
said,lck the
wonderlance;
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ran.
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Lottysome dice.
wstaasn kI
had the greatest difficulty in holding her, and in trying
to save her the shock of the horse neatly lost her often.
A kind man, a very poor one, sheltered us part of the
clayff,at ;0
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and
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and
under
were offered water when parched with thirst to get a
chance of knocking us off our horses. At noon of the
v.p'iecklauyp down Lotty
time,yarl. s o Ih taOdo tkoher in my arms
closeteion btoccuams. e aTwhaereoothf
nadrmgeodt
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21St, a Sunday,
an
and
let them
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comehad sotou .
My horse could not go at all, so it was useless to attempt
au escape. I had repeatedly told the others to make off
under snch circumstances and see how I wail treated.
They did not do so. Good feeling prompted Frank,
who is a fine fellow in many respects. We were tat en
to a village. I need not describe what followed, but
everything betokened death as certain. One old rascal
looked at me maliciously, and made a hacking move-
ment with his hand against Lis throat, as a snggesti
We wets told
of t
lwhatast wwe we
wered es deserved dbeantdakweLeirteottahgeek.
ewab o Bauch.
The poor man Ferukh had said it was certain death to
faint hope that God mightspare us. It
I had a very
when we got to the Newabs' palace
go to Bauda, and 1 felt certain we should be all killed.
was a great relief
through thousands of z alous Mide the gate and assured we were safe. Mrs.
pulled 8
ahournedano, and were
Maws was brought in next day. The rest of the party
had got rid of the assailants, shooting one, and by tLe
21st they had crossed the river Cane, five miles below
Banda ; they were close to it when some villagers
menaced them ; they all mounted and rode off. Poor
Doctor and Mrs. Mawe fell off and were not noticed,
save by sergeant Kircholl, who had to attend own
wife. She had gone on and he was on foot, and he left
the two. Poor Dr. Mawe had lost his hat the day be-
fore, and had suffered awfully. He died a few
minutes after boil g left. Poor Mrs. Mawe burned
all ever by the sun, went then and sat
down in the river to cool her burns. By
and by some more villagers cause and dragged her