Captain Paton was standing with his back against this half, and must have been killed; but Mukun, one of his chuprassies, seeing the gate giving way, caught him by the arm and dragged him behind the other half.

The other three chuprassies ran off in a fright and hid themselves.

Two of them were Surubdawun Sing and Juggurnath, two brothers, who will be mentioned elsewhere in this diary.* [* See Juggurnath chuprassie in Chapter V., Vol.

II.] The furious and confused mass rushed in through the half-opened gate, and beat Captain Paton to the ground with their bludgeons, the hilts of their swords, and the butt-ends of their muskets.

Mukun, chuprassie, his only remaining attendant, was beaten down at the same time and severely bruised, but he soon got up, covered with blood, made his way out through the crowd, and ran to meet the five companies of the 35th Regiment, then not far distant, under Colonel Monteath.