Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-02-27

The march proceeded at night because
Of the excessive heat during the day,
with advance guards bearing fire to
drive back the wild beasts, including the
tiger. During the day they rested in
rude military shelters called bungalows.
The advance through the jungle was
slow, healthful food difficult to procure,
and many Of the soldiers were prostra-
ted by sickness. At .Iubbulpore the con-
ditions grew worse, aud Mr.. aud Mrs.
Lee were stricken by the death of their
boy, whose body they saw borne off by
four black men for burial. Al Lucknow
cholera was raging, and their little girl
died and was buried in the same pit
with thirty-six soldiers who were victims
of this dread disease. The whole re-
naming portion of the regiment were
hurried out into the jungle before day
break, on camels and elephants, to a
place nine miles distant, where they
were kept for six weeks in quarantine.
Their headquarters were at Lucknow
for some four years, aud at that place
John Henry was born, the sou who came
with his parents TO this country and was
accidentally killed, some years since at
ST. Johnsbury, while employed by the
Boston & Maine Railroad.
At the time the regiment to which
Mr.. Lee belonged was sent to India. all
England had been shocked 10y the hor-
rors of the Indian mutiny, and having
brought the natives again under subjec-
ton, Queen Victoria had been declared
sovereign of India, and was sending her
troops there TO establish a more stable
government.
Occasionally the garrison was sent out
from Lucknow some fifty miles along
the blood stained roadways over which
the heartless young Mana Sahib had led
the mutineers, and across the now his
toric bridge to Cawnpore. At this place
were many desolate results of the mu-
tiny. Men aud women here realized
something of what had befallen those
who preceded them. They entered the
house in which nearly two hundred Eng
| fish women and children had been im-
prooned, and into which at nightfall the
Mohammedan butcher, accompanied by
two Hindoo and two Mohammedan mu-
tineers, had passed, and out of which
the Mohammedan came several times
with sword hilt only in his hand and
exchanged it for new weapon; they
looked down the well into which the
| quick and the dead alike were thrown
tie following morning. To one having
beheld such sights, beyond doubt human
beings never appear the same as they
did before. A familiarity with the de-
tails of this awful mutiny would alone
give an impression of the CHASTITY re-
minders that must have surrounded the
soldiers, and especially the women and
children, as from time to time they were
stationed at different places made fam
Gus by the uprising.
At Delhi they saw the palace of the
feeble old king to which the mutineers
had focked in search of leader. He,
the last of the Great Moguls, once dwelt
here dethroned, but in his palace, we
are told, grauder even than the kremlin.
Here were the pitiful suggestions of the
merciless slaughter, during the final
flash of his expiring glory. On every
hand was evidence of the most tiendish
cruelty. Hindoo and Mohammedan had
united to bring about the most devilish
results of religious bigotry; and in the
midst of it all, rose the unsurpassed
mausoleum erected by Shah-Jehan at a
cost of more than half million dollars,
and inscribed to the sacred love he bore
his queen. Strange indeed must have
been the reflections of the soldiers as
they beheld these sights, and were thus
taught the many motives that led to the
making of history. Beyond comprehen-
sion such records still appear to those
who read them, and in overwhelming
doubt would rest the conclusion, if all
along the path which the human race
has strewn with cruelty and ignorance
and higotry, were not builded, here and
there, by highest intelligence and cost
Hest sacrifice, the superbly beautiful
monument voicing the recognition of a
supernatural love.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee remained in India
more than seven years, some three Of
which were spent at Dunn Dunn, where
sickness again prevailed and their third
child was taken from them. She who
today refers to this period can well
speak of what she learned about the
country and the people, their social Gus
toms and religious ceremonies, but she
cannot conceal the recollection of the
sickness and peril and sorrow that con-
tinnally attended them, At Calcutta,