Category: Biographies
Sixteenth Queen's Lancers--Regiment in India--Gravesend--Scenes _en route_--Embark on board _Lord Exmouth_--Sprung a Leak--Plymouth Sound--Passage--Passing the line--Father Neptune--Cape de Verde Islands--Becalmed--Fishing--Cape of Good Hope--Albatrosses--Pass St. Paul and Ams...
Dost Mahomet usurps the throne of Afghanistan--Meerut division ordered to assemble five miles from Delhi--The King inspects our army--Pass through Maharajah Rimjut Sing's countr...
18. 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 t...
16. CHAPTER IV.Rio Scinde having died, his throne usurped by the Rannie or Queen of Gwalior--Ordered to join Lord Gough's Army at Agra--The Palace of Agra--The ancient seat of the Moguls of De...
24. 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--Waggo...
23. 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...
19. 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,...
22. 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--Eas...
13. CHAPTER I.Sixteenth Queen's Lancers--Regiment in India--Gravesend--Scenes _en route_--Embark on board _Lord Exmouth_--Sprung a Leak--Plymouth Sound--Passage--Passing the line--Father Nept...
15. CHAPTER III.Native sobriety and European drunkenness--Hindoo Mahoram feast Ceremony--Native habits--Shooting Sandgeese, Ducks, Parrots, Monkeys--Report of death of Shah-Soojah--Akbar Khan a...
17. CHAPTER V.Old companionship at Meerut--Arbuthnot and the 16th--Grand turn out--A bet won--40th leave for home--9th Lancers for Umballa--Natives with tattoo bring in fruit, vegetables--Des...
21. 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...
20. 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 susta...
5. CHAPTER V.Old companionship at Meerut--General Arbuthnot and the 16th--Grand turn out--A bet won--40th leave for home--9th Lancers for Umballa--Natives with tattoo bring in fruit and vege...
4. CHAPTER IV.Rio Scinde having died, his throne usurped by the Rannie or Queen of Gwalior--Ordered to join Lord Gough's Army at Agra--The Palace of Agra--The ancient seat of the Moguls of De...
6. 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 t...
2. CHAPTER II.Dost Mahomet usurps the throne of Afghanistan--Meerut division ordered to assemble five miles from Delhi--The King inspects our army--Pass through Maharajah Rimjut Sing's countr...
3. CHAPTER III.Native sobriety and European drunkenness--Hindoo Mahoram feast Ceremony--Native habits--Shooting Sandgeese, Ducks, Parrots, Monkeys--Report of death of Shah-Soojah--Akbar Khan a...
12. 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--Waggo...
11. 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...
10. 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--Eas...
1. CHAPTER I.Sixteenth Queen's Lancers--Regiment in India--Gravesend--Scenes _en route_--Embark on board _Lord Exmouth_--Sprung a Leak--Plymouth Sound--Passage--Passing the line--Father Nept...
9. 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...
8. 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 susta...
7. 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,...