How I trembled for my little garrison when I heard the enthusiastic cries of this innumerable host! * The Major has put the most approved language into the mouths of his Indian characters.

Bismillah, Barikallah, and so on, according to the novelists, form the very essence of Eastern conversation.
There was but one way for it.

"Sir," said I, addressing Holkar, "go out to-night and you go to certain death.

Loll Mahommed has not seen the fort as I have.

Pass the gate if you please, and for what?
to fall before the fire of a hundred pieces of artillery; to storm another gate, and then another, and then to be blown up, with Gahagan's garrison in the citadel.