. Memorials of the life and letters of Major-General Sir Herbert B. Edwardes, , , of Oxford; LL. D. of Cambridge . people of the district are behaving jieopie. splendidly. They catch all the deserters from the regiments,and bring ihem in with every rupee that was on they brought in a subahdar with nine hundredrupees and a gold necklace. I wonder they did not kill and<:s rob him. Derajat * « In the war of 1848-49 it was the whole length of the Derajut border .7^^°® which gave us those levies of wild swordsmen, matchlock-men, andsame stock ^^^•^IT which ena
. Memorials of the life and letters of Major-General Sir Herbert B. Edwardes, , , of Oxford; LL. D. of Cambridge . people of the district are behaving jieopie. splendidly. They catch all the deserters from the regiments,and bring ihem in with every rupee that was on they brought in a subahdar with nine hundredrupees and a gold necklace. I wonder they did not kill and<:s rob him. Derajat * « In the war of 1848-49 it was the whole length of the Derajut border .7^^°® which gave us those levies of wild swordsmen, matchlock-men, andsame stock ^^^•^IT which enabled us, in a season adverse to the march of Europeanas at troops, to shut up the rebel Dewan Moolraj in his fortress at Mooltan iloohan in and wrest from him one of the most fertile divisions of the Punjab. When1848-49. the next struggle came, in this terrible Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, the chiefs of the Derajat instantly took up arms, raised Horse and Foot, and hurried to our aid. From Peshawur to Bengal these loyal men were once more found fighting our battles, in spite of the taunts of the Mohammedans of India. —(H. B. E.). o 5 ^1 ]sr,7.] JOHN NICHOLSON IN PUIiSUIT OF MUTINEERS. 393 AVc have seen NichoLsuu start to l»ring the lie^dmeiit,at Miirdan, to order; and we must follow him by the aid oftlic diary, Wlien the ooliiinn came in sight of the fort, all but Contrast^ a hundred and twenty men had mutinied, and marched off St-poys of towards 8wat. Colonel Spottiswnod (their commandant), -*• seeing what tnru tilings liad taken, blew his brains out with a pistol. He was an old and good officer, much beloved by sepoys, and he con Id not apparently bear the icvulsion of the good feelings of a life. The few men wdio lomained loyal came out with their officers, ami were sent off to Nowshera. Then began the pursuit of the mutineers. They had got so great a start that the guns could not come up to them ; and the pursuit fell entirely on the Cavalry, of which Nicholson ha
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