New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17
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lt-about the land itself. and tba mo, thsr. 90
S'Lailge women; and you came to like Il all
ga queer folk. the Indians. and they'd look
and look and look at us an silent and then 90
-, tdisNng In their lingo. and the men yvould
cbsttoo, J1ooer' Jabber and the women chatter
a-.aeeI, enatter. and sometimes let out screechy
crying. WI was ""eiii''s w
And It was just like that evervth,nr sound-
Ils Iast and high and loud, that they used 10
make war music and come a-charging and a.
Serrlms az US; Bum. bum, bum! Ram, RAM
In. something like that but. Lord bless YOU!
We couldn't make it out; all the men screech-
ne ana their drums going like mad And it's
lien We heard Them night and day for
served through the siege of Delhi. in 81
Ihns James Ervine. longtime private in the
1nSilsh army He enlisted in 1855 was sent 10
ihula, fought throughout the Indian Nutinv
and served many a year Thereafter. a Io,,ai
literal minded soldier And IL NAV he raen+ioneS
rals1, IKE al other soldiers of India. he pro-
hoHhces Delhi as If il were spelled "Deiix
with the accent on the first syllable and the
~ shcrt. 'A'
Wei 7 was in the Plinjab when the ,rp,ir,,
that's what they called it, the Indian NJ,ttnvy
lean Ana II was ali a surprise We Ivo,,ld
just rs soon "a thought of our batterv h wUule
making mutiny. There we was few white
- aild 4 lot OF enlisted Indians at orr most
INC - one day the Indians just marched awav
y. ,,-a,i .u'hilt rather silly like. in a manner
~ fSaNiils' out not that I mean that any of
ire once IS ever looked silly YOU understand
-, ile'Iu aiterWard that in other garrisons the
I-atNe SolC.ers murdered all they could of the
Easlsh officers but with us they just went off
quiet like. - 49, 'N O'A
We'll. was took oy surprise and oil wa
eolstsu 90 at frst was to safeguard our barracks
ana arms, and that first night our regiment
slePl OUT OF doors around the guns ready for
any attack. But ne natives they wasn't think
i .er ~ any atlS@~A They was off for Delhi.
DEM, we soon found out, was to be the
centre OF IL all, and natives went there from
an over india to fight and was joined with
olner troops and sent to Delhi to besiege it
&c ou see, they had a King o Delhi that they
SCI great store by, but for a long time Ue-T
mean me government, you understandable
Pensloned him and KEEP him Quiet and give him
a lot O palaces and women That was sor,a
OF the civilians i'm government as did that: Our
generals wouldn't a done it. but would "a sent
nm r.ghI ABOUT face And 1 don't think her
MAJESTY ever could "a knOwed. for nobody
couldn't "a told lady let alone a queen, abont
INC ooings they told about in some o. them
Well, the mutineers. they took this King of
penn ana they set him a real throne. and
lhey called MIN Emperor Of India, and they nut
gold crown on his head
We marched to Delhi. through VILLAGES r,,,aro
me brown folk glowered at us all silent and
Iheh Jabbered after we passed 1t was over
nity years ago, but it all Genes back to me; the
slShlS and The smells and the feelings of it We
went along narrow roads. through the strange
trees and flowers ] was telling Won about and
PAST helds all cut up with little canals for fri
sauohlng; and 1t would "a been pretty march
spite o the dust. if we hadn't ali felt so mad
ABOUT the stories of killing that kept coming to
us-not only killing men. but killing women ana
cillidreh-aId worse than killing All we want
ed, then. was to get at them But it's fine
country, fine country. One of nv comrades
was reading the other day some verses about
heafln the East a-cang. It's that difference
aIlu mystery, you understand, an it's being
sort o fairyland. And il calls; YES it calls and
cans once you get il fair in your blood like a
uoplc fever, belize. But the insecks are GER
tainly bit O trouble now and then" he added
struck by sudden afterthought Robert
Shackleton, in Harper's Magazine