There are not half enough white troops in India, and the Sepoys may well think that they are masters of the situation.

It would be a terrible time for everyone in India if they did take it into their heads to rise." "I can't believe they would be mad enough to do that, Doctor; they have everything to lose by it, and nothing to gain, that is, individually; and we should be sure to win in the long run, even if we had to conquer back India foot by foot." "That is all very well, Bathurst; we may know that we could do it, but they don't know it.

They are ignorant altogether of the forces we could put into the field were there a necessity to make the effort.

They naturally suppose that we can have but a few soldiers, for in all the battles we have fought there have always been two or three Sepoy regiments to one English.

Besides, they consider themselves fully a match for us.