FROM UMBALA TO FATHIGARH. 307 



On the morning of January 2 Seaton himself, in 

 company with Light and Hodson, rode over to the 

 chiefs camp near Gursahaiganj , on the road to 

 Fathigarh. " The chief," says Seaton, " had forced 

 the passage of the Kali Nadi, and we came in for 

 the tail of the fight, for there were still dropping 

 shots in every direction." " We did not get back," 

 writes Hodson on the 3rd, " until two this morning, 

 very weary and tired, and now comes an order, just 

 as I am sitting down to write, for my regiment to 

 march at once to join the chiefs camp near Fathi- 

 garh ; so I am again reduced to the mere announce- 

 ment that I am safe and well. I have just heard 

 that the rebels have bolted from Fathigarh." 



