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reign in the shape of the Victoria Cross.* 

 After listening with intense interest to 

 his simple but spirit-stirring narrative, 

 the author could not help comparing it 

 with the very graphic description of the 

 nocturnal enterprise of Diomed and 

 Ulysses by the Greek or the equally 

 beautiful but more melancholy paraphrase 

 of " Nisus and Euryalus " by the Latin 

 poet. 



My sister accompanied the other ladies 

 in their escape from the hands of these 

 sanguinary and merciless ruffians in the 

 night, on foot, carrying under her arm a 

 small bundle containing all that remained 

 to her of household goods and apparel, 

 and of years of gathering of small but 

 valuable mementoes intended for her rela- 

 tives in England. 



But the tale of the last six months of 

 her residence in that important portion 

 of our Indian possessions has been cir- 



See " The Victoria Cross How I Won it." 

 VOL. III. H 



