Our boys in India . ed Richard. Yes, that wasa terrible massacre. Nana Sahib was at the head of the rebelsin that quarter. He was as much of a fiend as some of theEnglish officers. He ordered his soldiers to go into ambushon the steps of a low temple leading down into the water,and, as soon as the barges with the English prisoners camepast the temple, to open fire upon them till all were many of his soldiers refused to do; though they werefighting for their very lives and homes and families, and wereonly ignorant Hindus at the best. He could not drive themor persuade them. He was for
Our boys in India . ed Richard. Yes, that wasa terrible massacre. Nana Sahib was at the head of the rebelsin that quarter. He was as much of a fiend as some of theEnglish officers. He ordered his soldiers to go into ambushon the steps of a low temple leading down into the water,and, as soon as the barges with the English prisoners camepast the temple, to open fire upon them till all were many of his soldiers refused to do; though they werefighting for their very lives and homes and families, and wereonly ignorant Hindus at the best. He could not drive themor persuade them. He was forced to gather a promiscuouscrowd, and, by wine and bribery, forced them to do thebloody work. The British army came still nearer; and NanaSahib heard from every side of the fearful deaths his peoplewere dying at their hands, and of their merciless marches. In 188 OUR BOYS IN INDIA. his fury he ordered the women who were his captives to bekilled at the last moment, when it was certain that the Brit-ish were upon THE SCENE OF NANA SAHIBS MASSACRE OF THE BRITISH. *Their bodies were thrown into a well, were they not?asked Scott. Yes: into the well that is now the famous Scar ofCawnpore, kept fresh in British memory by a chapel that hasbeen built over it, and a marble angel that stands direcdyover the well. What started the mutiny? asked Scott. Too much of a complication for us to discuss just now,replied Richard. And you said that that Dhondaram was one of theleaders? said Scott a moment later, for there seemed to besome strange fascination that was drawing him continuallytoward that name. Yes: he was the right hand of Nana Sahib, repliedRichard. ? •* THUGS AND TRAITORS. 189 Is he really a very bad man ? I do not know, Scott, replied Richard with a Hindus are not of our world. What seems verywrong to us seems right to them. God may have somedifferent way of judging them than by our codes of he as bad as Nana Sahib? asked Scott. I think not, replied Richa
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