The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-02-20
a sEPOY MUTINY INCIDENT.
How six-FOoter MunGuI Pandy Met
His Match
CFrom the CornhII Magazine.)

(From the CornhiH Magazine)
How the white teeth CLEAN, and the
black eyes fash through the crowd of ex-
cited SepOys! The clamOr Of voices takes
a new shTillnesS- Two sahibs are down
before their eyes, under the victorious
arm Of one Of their comrades, The men
who form the quarter guard of the Thirty
fourth. at the orders or their native off,
Ger, run forward few PAGES at the dou-
bic, but they do not attempt 70 seize the
uUtineer. Their sympathies are with
him They halt; they sway to and fro
The nearest smite with the butt e. ds OF
their muskets at the Two wounded Eng
Iishmen.
\ cluster of British officers BY this
time is on the scene the colonel OF the
Thirty-fourth himself has come up, and
naturally takes command. He orders the
men of the quarter guard to seize the
muJineerS, and is told ~ the native officer
IN charge that the men ~ Ill not go en-
The colonel is. unhdppiIy not Of the UT
which heroes are made. He looks through
his spectacles at MunguI Pandy \ six
foot Sepoy in open revolt loaded musket
in hand-himSelI loaded more dangerous
y by fanaticism strongly favored with
bhang-While a thousand excited Sepoys
look on trembling with angry sympathy,
does not make cheerful spectacle. 7
felt il useless says the bewiIdered colo
mel, in his iciaI report after the incl
dent, going on any further in the mat
ter 1t would have been a use
less sacrifice Of life to order 4 European
officer of the guard TO seize him.
/ left the guard and reported the matter
to the brigadier-' Unhappy colcnelI He
: may have had his red tape virtues, but
/ he was clearly not the man TO suppress
! mutiny- The mutiny, in a word. sup
pressed him: And let il be imag- ned how
? he. .-t.a..T l. Il.
added new element of wondering de-
light TO the huge crowd OF swaying Sc
pOys.
At this moment General Hearsey. the
brigadier in charge. rides on to the par
ade ground; a red-faced, wrathful, hard
fighting, iTon-nerved veteran, with two
sons of blood as Tarlike as their father ;.
riding behind him as aides. Hearsey,
with quick military glance, takes in The
whole scene-a mob o. excited Sepovs.
the sullen quarter guard. The TWO redcOats
lying in the road, ana the victorious
Mungul Pandy, musket IN hand. As he
! rode up somebody called out: Have a
care; his musket is Ioadedr' To which the
general replied with military brevity.
/ Trevelyan, concerning which every true
Englishman viii make the customary in
vocation to the recording angel"
Mungul Pandy covered the general with
his mUSket. Hearsey found time TO say
to his son, II l fall. John, rush in and put
him to death somehow" Then, pulling
up his horse on the flank Of the quarter
guard he plucked a pistol from his hoI-
ster Ieveled it straight at the head Of
the native officer. and curly ordered the
men to advance and seize the mountain
eer. The leveled pistol, 10 doubt, had its
own logic; but more effective than even
the 81 eady and tiny tube was the fac that
looked from behind it, with command and
iron courage in every line. That master
tul British viii instantly asserted itself.
The loose line Of the quarter guard stiff
feneG with instructive obedience: the men
stepped forward, and Mungul Pandy. with
| one unsteady glance at Hearsey's stern
yisage. turned with quick movement the
muZZle of his gun TO his own breast,
thrust his naked toe into the trigger, and
fell, self-shot- He survived TO be hanged,
with due official ceremonies, seven days
afterward- II a true instinct which.
after this. taught the British soldier to
call every mutinous Sepoy a Panty
| That incident at Barrackpore is really the
history OF the Indian mutiny in little.