As it had become a regular nuisance for the sepoys to employ people to carry for them, telling them that I would pay, I demanded why he had promised in my name.

"Oh, it was but a little way he carried the musket," said he.
Chimseia warned us next morning, 30th June, against allowing any one to straggle or steal in front, for stabbing and plundering were the rule.

The same sepoy who had employed a man to carry his musket now came forward, with his eyes fixed and shaking all over.

This, I was to understand, meant extreme weakness; but I had accidentally noticed him walking quite smartly before this exhibition, so I ordered him to keep close to the donkey that carried the havildar's luggage, and on no account to remain behind the party.

He told the havildar that he would sit down only for a little while; and, I suppose, fell asleep, for he came up to us in the evening as naked as a robin.
I saw another person bound to a tree and dead--a sad sight to see, whoever was the perpetrator.