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Forty-one years in India

CHAPTER XI
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He took his leave, thoroughly satisfied.] [Footnote 4: Throne.] [Footnote 5: A station since abandoned for Rajanpur.] [Footnote 6: Now General Sir W.T.Hughes, K.C.B.] [Footnote 7: The two disarmed regiments remained quietly at Multan for more than a year, when, with unaccountable inconsistency, a sudden spirit of revolt seized them, and in August, 1858, they broke out, tried to get possession of the guns, murdered the Adjutant of the Bombay Fusiliers, and then fled from the station.

But order by that time had been quite restored, our position in the Punjab was secure, and nearly all the sepoys were killed or captured by the country people.] [Footnote 8: No Native, in Native dress, keeps his shoes on when he enters a room, unless he intends disrespect.] [Footnote 9: The late Field Marshal Lord Strathnairn, G.C.B., G.C.S.I.] [Footnote 10: A kind of light cart.] [Footnote 11: A four-walled enclosure for the accommodation of travellers.] [Footnote 12: It will be remembered that this was the regiment in which two men had been found with loaded muskets, and blown away from guns at Lahore.] * * * * *.


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