CHAPTER III 



How long I continued in the troop after the fighting was 

 virtually all over, I cannot now remember, for when writing 

 from memory of a past so rich in incidents, it is not easy 

 to recall the sequence of events, but to the best of my 

 recollection, the corps I belonged to was disbanded towards 

 the close of the year 1860, to come into existence again 

 almost as a whole though under a new title in 1861. 



By this time the Mutiny had been finally stamped out, 

 and amongst the changes effected by the Government was 

 the creation of a new, semi-military police or constabulary 

 as it was called for the whole of India, manned and officered 

 almost entirely by members of the various yeomanry and 

 other irregular forces which had been raised, temporarily, 

 to aid in quelling the rebellion. I was, amongst some 

 others, fortunate enough to be appointed as a junior 

 officer to this new police force, and found myself posted 



to the district of R , in the lower provinces of Bengal, 



as an assistant superintendent, and lost no time in joining 

 my appointment. 



The force, as I have said, was organized on semi- 

 military lines, and, in the district I was appointed to, 

 consisted of about five hundred in all, including native 

 officers such as inspectors, sub-inspectors, and head- 

 constables the whole under the command of an officer 

 styled the District Superintendent, who as in most cases 

 was a military man, and to whom I was in the position of 

 second in command. 



My life now, though naturally less exciting than what 

 I had been accustomed to lately, was infinitely more 

 interesting, to say nothing of the comfort of living in a 

 house again, being properly attended on by servants, and 

 having proper food, instead of living nowhere in particular, 

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