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On the 9th Hodson reached Cawnpore, where he 

 found time to foment his arm, which had become 

 inflamed from the effects of his journey. On the 

 10th Hodson's Horse crossed the Ganges and en- 

 camped at Unao with the leading brigades of 

 Campbell's army. " Our friend [Napier]," he says, 

 " is chief engineer with the force, and a brigadier to 

 boot. I hope to see him in a day or two." During 

 the halt at this place Hodson sent Hugh Gougli 

 back to Cawnpore to bring out arrears of pay for 

 the regiment. 



It was now that Cough made his first acquaintance 

 with Colonel Robert Napier, to whom Hodson had 

 given him a letter of introduction. That great 

 soldier received him "with the kindness he never 

 failed to show to me in all the years I knew him and 

 served under him in after-life. . . . He was one of 

 Hodson's greatest friends, and I have always con- 

 sidered this fact a strong proof of Hodson's acquittal 

 of the serious charges brought against him. Napier 

 would never have admitted an unworthy man to his 

 friendship." ^ 



Writing home to his sister on the 11th, Hodson 

 tells her not to buoy herself up with the hope of 

 honours for him. " I shall be a brevet-major, and 

 nothing more, I expect. It seems the authorities 

 here never sent home a list of men recommeuded 

 for honours ; and the home authorities have been 

 w^aiting until they get one. ' Hinc illse lacrymae ! ' 

 And we shall all suffer by the delay in more ways 

 than one. But we are certainly to have prize- 

 money, and this with the batta will take us home 

 this 'time next year, if not sooner. . . . Dear, dear 



^ Old Memories. 



