Douglas Island news., 1910-09-21
AROUND THE WORLD
Dr. Simpsons Story of His Visits to the Countries of the
 Old World
Continued from last weeIs)

the we'll on top of the women and chil- dren. One little boy who had been missed ran around the well calling for his mother (who was in the well), but a sepoy ran a sword through him and threw him screaming into the we'll. All that is known is what is told by natives as not a single white person in Cawn- pore was allowed to live.
 Mana fled immediately after. The next day Havelock arrived. His men had been marching day and night. He left General Neill with few hundred men at Cawupore, and he pushed on after the flying Mana and his army. Neill's soldiers stopped at the empty house. In the coruers were great blood marks on the wall made by the sword when it missed the head of victim, many of the marks low down showing how the women or children had stopped to avoid the blows Everywhere along the walls besides the blood clots and sword marks, were locks of hair cut off by missing blows and stuck to the walls. Each sergeant went to the wall, gathered up a handful of hair, went back to his men, divided the bunch into little wisps, giving each man one, saying, "a life for every hair" The soldiers made good before sunset: There was over two inches of blood on the floor. General NeiII made an in- vestigation and found out who the ringeaders were. One of them, very prominent Hindoo Brahmin, had a square foot of floor given him and told to lick it up. He refused, as it would make him lose his caste; his own wife and children could not speak to him and he would be forever damned. Neill brought gentle pressure to bear on him and showed the other Hindoos the edi, flying spectacle of one of their highest Brahmins defling himself, losing his caste and hereafter. He lay on his stomach until that square foot was clean. Neill looked at the floor and walls and laid out three inches square for each ringleader. When they were through there was not drop blood on the floor or walls. Two hundred people would bleed a good deal. When the house was cleaned Neill began hanging. This is a terrible death for either Hindoo or Mohammedan, for it damns him forever. One tree still stands. It is a large tree and for long time it's branches had as many bodies as they could hold. To thoroughly scare the Mohammedans, many of them after be, ing hanged had their dead bodies sewn up in pigskius and burned, the pig be- ing an unclean and very obnoxious animal to them. They are also bitterly opposed to cremation.
 The site of Wheeler's entrenchment is shown, it being marked off by hedges and stone pillars. The well is there where it was almost certain death to go to draw water. The little cemetery is there where none were buried, but those who died in the camp the first three weeks. l saw the church where are buried those men who escaped from the boats, but were brought back and killed. In the vestry l was shown photographs taken the day that General NeilI entered Cawnpore. Everywhere in the church were memorials to some man-soldier or civiliau-woman or child who was killed during those un. happy times. 1 went to the Suti Chaura Chat. There is a small Hindoo temple with a suttee stone on which widows were burned when their hus bands died. The broad steps lead down to the water as they did fifty years ago. A pretty place.
 went to the memorial well where the unhappy victims were thrown. The bodies were newly disturbed. General Neill ordered the we'll to be covered up right away. It is now in the center of a beautiful park. A mound is raised over the we'll, in the center of which is the Angel of Resurrection in white marble. There are two inscriptions. Around the mound is beautiful high marble wall or screen. Natives are never allowed within this wall except to clean the marble. Near by is a cross showing the site of the house where they were murdered. Beside it is a namelss grave. When Neill made in.