Chapter VI

Hureka Gaut--Sir Harry Smith ordered to intercept Rungour
Sing--Joined by 77th foot--March--View of Buddural--Opened
fire--16th to hold ground while infantry push on--Too weak to fight
yet--Baggage cut off--Some of 31st foot made prisoners--Treatment
of their sergeant by the enemy--Push into Loodianna--News of their
retreat--Ordered to intercept--Arrival at fort--Harem--Finding two
bags of rupees--Reinforced and advance--Order of troops--Battle
of Aliwal commenced--Sir Harry's telescope cut in two--"Lancers,
three cheers for our Queen"--Charge--A square of guards--Corporal
Newsom--Bravery--Killed--Green flag in his hand--"Immortalized
16th"--Fearful loss--Join another squadron--Pursuit to
river--Destruction--Wounded to village--March to join Lord
Gough--Two hundred cannon belching together--Sobraon 10th
February--Description of battle--British flag planted--The
bridge blown up--Charge the entrenchments--Victory and end
of Sikh War--Losses--Labour--Chiefs bring out the young
Maharajah--Reception in Lord Hardinge's marquee--Terms--Crowning
the young King--Proud Sikhs--Retort on our Sepoys 90

CHAPTER VII.

Sir H. Lawrence--Orders for home--Re-cross
Sutledge--Jerosha--Scenes of previous engagement--Meerut--Leave
for Calcutta--Down Ganges--Col. Cureton's farewell--Dum
Dum--Calcutta, city, grand Ball--Sights--Embark for home--Bay
of Bengal--Ascension--St. Helena--Doru Cliffs--Boats coming
off--Relatives--March to Canterbury--Furlough--London--Meet Sisters
and Mother--Deal--Battle--Anniversary--Buckingham Palace--Reviewed
by Her Majesty--Claim Discharge--Causes--Take Ship for South Africa
108

CHAPTER VIII.

The religion of the
Hindoos--Castes--Brahmins--Kshatriyas--Vaisyas--Sudras--Sub-division
by mixed marriages--The Triune Godhead: Brahma the centre, Vishnu
the preserver or sustainer, and Siva, the destroyer--The Hindoo
Pantheon--Brahmin place of worship--The Sacred Cow--Transmigration
of souls--Degrees of punishment for various sins--The fate of the
murderer, the adulterer, the unmerciful 124

CHAPTER IX.

Delhi the ancient capital of the Mogul Empire--General description,
population, &c.--The king's palace--Embattled walls and
guns--Martello towers--Jumna Musjeed, or chief mosque--The tombs of
the Humayoon, and of Sefjar Jung--The Shelima gardens--The ancient
Patons, or Afghan conquerors of India--The celebrated Cattab
Minar--The tomb of Humayoon--The aqueduct of Alikhan--College for
Orientals and Europeans 133

CHAPTER X.

Cape of Good Hope--First sight of--Inhabitants--Descent and
other particulars--Sir Harry again--Sandicea in rebellion--War
rumours--Join a Volunteer Corps--Off for frontier--East
London--Army at Fort William--Join them--Gazetted Lieutenant--The
Jungle--Kaffir women--73rd Regiment--Arrangements--Enter the
Gaika tribe country--The huts--The kraal--43rd, 60th and 12th
Lancers--General Somerset--Fort Beaufort--Colonel Fordyce
shot--Buffalo Post--Capture cattle--Pursuit of Kaffirs--Sardillas'
horse shot--Bridle neck bush--Time-expired men--Back to
recruit--The Hottentot--East London again 145

CHAPTER XI.

Transferred to Fingoe Service--Fingoe character--Ordered to Kye
river--Chief Krielle--Colonel Eyre--Through the bush--The Chief's
position--Battered by big guns--Cattle captured--On return
march--Harassed by enemy--One month on march bring in 500 head--Sir
Harry called home--Sir George Cathcart--Sandilla surrendered--Chief
Moshusha--Attack his stronghold--Surrenders--Back to Fort
William--Disbanded--Off on elephant hunt--Provisions for--Plan
to capture--Kill four--Trading with Chiefs and their
wives--Precautions against lions--Elephant's spoor--Excursion often
fatal--Back to Grahamstown--Stiles' Hotel 159

CHAPTER XII.

West to Clanwilliam--Mr. Shaw--Productions of
farm--Back to the Cape--Open an hotel--Pleasures of
Cape life--Ships put in for Australia--Imports--Market
day--Arrangements--Waggons--Fish--Lobsters--Off to Port
Elizabeth--Whale fishing--Sea elephants--Manner of killing--The
Penguin--Habits of the bird--Back to the Cape--English Church
at Newlands--The Bay--Wreck of a Baltimore vessel--Loss
of two children, captain's wife, and the mate--Habits of
Hottentots--Manner of living--A marriage--A present and
its return--Loss in business by partner absconding--Leave
the Cape--East India docks--Buckinghamshire--Relatives at
home--Station master--Accident detailed--Near Rugby--Exonerated and
promoted--Liverpool--Brighton--To Canada--Farewell address 175

TEN YEARS IN INDIA.