The Chitral campaign : a narrative of events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour . s and ends of the garrison, horse-keepers and servants, at once went off to endeavourto extinguish it. Every one else remained quietlyat his place, for the firing of the gun tower mighthave been only a feint to divert attention from anattack on the waterway. But as this did not seemto be the case, the inlying picquet was soon after-wards sent by Townshend to carry up water andearth in their great-coats. In the tower itself an exciting scene was going the machicoulis galleries to the south andeast, men tried har
The Chitral campaign : a narrative of events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour . s and ends of the garrison, horse-keepers and servants, at once went off to endeavourto extinguish it. Every one else remained quietlyat his place, for the firing of the gun tower mighthave been only a feint to divert attention from anattack on the waterway. But as this did not seemto be the case, the inlying picquet was soon after-wards sent by Townshend to carry up water andearth in their great-coats. In the tower itself an exciting scene was going the machicoulis galleries to the south andeast, men tried hard to subdue the flames with earthand buckets of water. Inside the darkness wasvery great; outside the flames raged fiercely, whilstconstant volleys from the enemy, only thirty yardsaway behind the walls of the summer-house, madea rattle and roar that must have been men fell down, blinded with splinters fromthe woodwork. All worked their hardest; Kashmiriservants, throwing aside their natural timidity, viedwith each other in bringing water and earth, and. C;URKHA SEPOV 4TH KASHMIR RIFLES AND MAHOMMEDAN SERVANT. ATTACK ON THE GUN TOWER 73 stood the racket of the bullets with wonderful old tracker from Gilgit, a servant of CaptainTownshend, worked hard in the eastern galleryuntil wounded in two places. It should be men-tioned that the machicoulis galleries could only holdone man at a time, and, when one was wounded,another had to be substituted. A brave littleGurkha sat in the south gallery, ladling down wateron the bonfire beneath, calmly replacing the pro-tecting shutters as they were knocked over by thebullets, and then ladling away again, until he, too,was badly hurt, and had to be dragged out of hisperilous post. For an instant there was a panic,no one caring to replace the wounded man, andthen Bidrina, the same Gurkha officer who hadhelped to bring in Captain Baird, stepped out into thegallery and worked there until he too was exhaustedand had to b
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