Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-10-06
A Slight Mistake.

1901, meeTuU, Dolnl, huCAHoW, Od"u-
pore, Bareilly, Benares, Allahabad and
Lahore-these are names which must
bring shudder to all who have read
the terrible tales of outrage, massacre
and death.
II started with missionary and his
wife in the most flaming days in mid
summer" said Albert Anderson, an En-
glishman, sin the hope that we could
make our way across the country to meet
Gen. Havelock and his brave soldiers,
who were fighting their way foot by
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to save the little garrison, and the wo-
men and children who were in such
awful peril from men who were not men
but fends.
"The whole country was seething with
rebellion, and the chances were ten to
one we would be slaughtered by the
mutineers before we could cross half the
| luICIfSuluS uloeduCC.
1--WE stole along by night, hiding DUR
ing the day, and carefully accommodating
the ground in front, until we had passed
fully fifty miles, and were confident that
no more than half as many lay between
US and General Havelock.
.'ln fact, on the fourth day, while
hiding in the jungle, we heard distinct
ly the guns of the Christian general and
his gallant boys as they hammered away
at the Sepoys, and beat them out of
their path.
"This greatly cheered us, and afforded
compass as to the course we ought to
pursue; but, at the same time, the dan
ger was intensified, for the mutineers
were constantly increasing in numbers,
and we were liable to run against them
at any moment.
"The weather was simply Internal
and time and again we wondered how it
was our European soldiers could stand
up and fight under it. Poor fellows !!
there were hundreds stricken down by
coup de Soleil, cholera and other diseases
produced by the frightful heat. To US,
as we lay painting in the dense. shady
jungle, it seemed as if another degree
would suffocate US.
1--WE dared not show ourselves out of
our concealment during the day, for our
enemies were all around u.s. Often we
peered through the shrubbery and saw
the swarthy imps, sometimes on foot and
sometimes on horseback, riding back and
forth and here and there in way which
, left no doubt they were hunting for fugi.
3 tives.
. added to the dangers from Sepoy'
and the weather were the perils from
wild beasts and serpents, In that strange
empire, the jungles swarm with the mos
, dangerous reptiles and animals on The
! globe. ~
: "The missionary and myself wer'
armed, as a matter of course, but W,
: were fearful of risking shot, lest i
e might draw the attention of our enemie
to US. and consequently we took specia
!. pains to avoid all cobras and tigers, ant
# like foes.
e "We had reached the point named
$ and were grouped together, talking il
low tones, and listening to the fain
} boom of Havelock's cannon, when Mrs
Heckmyer suddenly looked sharpl
e about her. and began such spasmodi
search for something, that her husban
j. and | asked what she had lost.
e "'My shawl, she answered. Il d
: not understand where it can be. +"
"We Joined her in the hunt, and
n few minutes were sufficient to prove tina
is it had been dropped somewhere on GU
- pdJn uuuOblCtQ
T. Little need had the lady for such a
additional protection in that intolerabl
- climate; but the shawl was beautiful
t. ly ornamented tiger-skin of the fines
d texture, dressed, by native physician
D. to the 1exibility of silk. 1t was yer
u valuable even in the country of tigers
: besides which it was highly priced fc
> the reason that it was presented to Mr.
W Heckmyer by q loved sister just befoI
g her DEATH
ne at was exceedingly tiresome. thes
long days of waiting in the jungle, an
l. | was glad of an excuse to start bac
20 20 and look for the missing garment.
to would afford relief for the weary m,
|" notony.
Id "There was no reason why / shoul
make any blunder. Our hiding-plat
at was more secure than usual, and l W;
n travelling backward over ground that
one sense was familiar.
IN '.ln fact, ] was so secure in my ow
er confidence that / remember feeling ratl
IT. er pleased over the mishap of Mr.
Heckmyer, inasmuch as it gave n
OK something in the way of diversion.
Of ii was quite clear in my own mir
,e. as to where the shawl had been lost
Ii treading our way through the jungle v
en, en- had reached plateau some fifty feet 4
n elevation, and over which | was no
nd walking. The ascent to this was lii
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