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 assumes the government--General Elphinstone retires--Mr. McNaughton killed--Massacre in Guddulock Pass by Akbar Khan--44th foot cut to pieces--A few escape to Jellelabad--Colonel Denny--Major Havelock--Colonel Sale attacks Akbar--Denny killed--Havelock in command--General Pollock pushes on from Bengal--Doctor Brydon--His miraculous escape through the Pass--General Nott ordered to Ghuznee--Pollock reinforces Sale--Lord Auckland succeeded by Lord Ellenborough--The Gates of the Temple of Somnuth--The Maharajah of Lahore pays his respects to Lord Ellenborough--Durbar at Delhi--Review before the King and Indian Princes--Meerut again--My comrade Jaco--The Spaniel and Jaco 49