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were ordered to throw down their arms. This they reluc- 

 tantly did, and subsequently most of the muskets were found 

 to be loaded. The gunners then kicked them out at the gate, 

 and they went off. 



Major Harris, who commanded the cavalry, had gone to 

 dine at his own house : hearing the firing, he mounted his horse 

 and rode towards the lines, but was met by a party of his 

 own men, and he and his horse were there and then shot. 

 Colonel Platt, who was very deaf, rode up to the fort, and 

 called out Captain Fagan. This officer, till within a few days 

 of the outbreak, had been adjutant of the infantry regiment. 

 Apparently Platt could not hear the firing, but his trust in 

 his men was great. He and Captain Fagan went off to the 

 lines, the Colonel confident that he could restore order. 

 They never returned ; and their bodies were found next 

 morning on the parade-ground, riddled with bullets. 



The' sky now began to redden with the blazing houses of the 

 officers, when Hungerford, ordering out two of his guns under 

 Lieutenant Mallock, supported by a few officers on horseback, 

 made a dash down the central road of the cantonment. A 

 few rounds were fired into the lines, which were instantly 

 vacated by the dastardly mutineers, who fled to join those at 

 Indore. Having plundered that station, they moved on 

 Gwalior, and it was said they formed part of the force which 

 was afterwards cut up near Agra by Colonel Greathed. 



While these events were taking place I was in my house 

 at Maunpore, where I had hastily got together all the men I 

 could muster. What with my own guard of eighteen men of 

 the Gwalior Contingent, road and hill police, and about twenty- 

 five men of the Thuggee Department, left with me by my 

 friend in the morning, I had about one hundred men. Hol- 

 kar's agent, who was attached to my office, sent off several 



