During the Mutiny the holy stone was carried off.] [Footnote 3: Lieutenant Salmon, R.N.

(now Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon, K.C.B.), climbed up a tree overhanging this wall, in order to see what was going on behind it; he succeeded in obtaining useful information, but on being perceived, was fired at and badly wounded.

He received the V.C.] [Footnote 4: Marked D on the map.] [Footnote 5: Now Major-General Keen, C.B.It was an extremely responsible charge for so young an officer with such a small party, as it was very isolated and exposed to attack.] [Footnote 6: Now Field-Marshal Viscount Wolseley, K.P., Commander-in-Chief.] [Footnote 7: Called the Pearl Palace from the fancied resemblance of one of its domes (since destroyed) to the curve of a pearl.] [Footnote 8: A slab let into the south-west corner of the wall marks the spot.] [Footnote 9: Now General Sir William Olpherts, V.C., K.C.B.] * * * * *.