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he immediately got leave to carry the news to 

 General Wilson. 



This he did, " galloping down along the front of 

 the city to see if that was quite clear. I then asked 

 leave to go down through the camp and see what 

 was really the state of the case ; and M 'Do well and 



I started with seventy-five men and rode at a gallop 

 right round the city to the Delhi gate, clearing the 

 roads of plunderers and suspicious-looking objects as 

 we went. We found the camp, as I had been told, 

 empty, and the Delhi gate open : we were there at 



II A.M. at latest, and it was not until 2 p.m. that 

 the order was given for the cavalry to move out, 

 and they were so long about it that when at sunset 

 M'Dowell and I were returning (bringing away 

 three guns left by the enemy, and having made 

 arrangements and collected camels for bringing in 

 the empty tents, &c.) we met the advance guard 

 coming slowly forward in grand array ! We had 

 been on to the jail and old fort, two or three miles 

 beyond Delhi, and executed many a straggler. I 

 brought in the mess plate of the 60th Native 

 Infantry, their standards, drums, and other things. 

 M'Dowell and I had been for five hours inside the 

 Delhi gate, hunting about, before a guard was sent 

 to take charge of it." 



On the same day Hodson had been " much shocked 

 (even familiar as I have become with death) by poor 

 Hervey Greathed's sudden death yesterday from 

 cholera : the strongest and healthiest man in camp 

 snatched away after a few hours' illness. . . . What 

 a harvest of death there has been during the past 

 four months, as if war was not sufficiently full of 

 horrors ! . . . None but those who fou2;ht throus-h 



