132 RESIDENCE IN TRAVELLERS' BUNGALOW. 



having a flat in tow, reached Sukkur several 

 days after the Nimrodj and both vessels were so 

 completely crammed with troops that the men 

 had barely room to lie down, though the native 

 servants generally slept on shore after taking 

 their evening meal. A fleet of boats with 300 

 Sepoy prisoners, mider sentence of trans23orta- 

 tion, also arrived from Mooltan some days sub- 

 sequently, under charge of a strong guard of 

 General Van Cortland's Military Police Corps. 

 Some two or three of the prisoners had been 

 shot in attempting escape near Subjulcote. The 

 men of the guard were fine, stout fellows, and 

 appeared to be very attentive to their duty. 



The loneliness of our residence in the Travel- 

 lers' Bungalow was occasionally mitigated by 

 the presence of some agreeable companions, one 

 of whom amongst other anecdotes related the 

 following regarding Ameer Khan, a Pathan 

 chief of Hindustan, which for chivalry of senti- 

 ment matches Scott's anecdote of the Hii^h- 

 land Chieftain's candelabra in the Legend of 

 Montrose : — 



'' The meeting between Lord William Ben- 

 tinck, when Governor-General of India, and 

 the Maharajah Runjit Singh, at Roopur on the 



