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able morasses, and in fordinof or swimmino- rivers — 

 succeeded, in the nick of time, footsore, weary, and 

 exhausted, in reaching our outposts. He delivered 

 despatches from Sir James Outram to the Commander-in- 

 Chief, who immediately put his army in motion, and, 

 under the o-uidance of this brave and intellis^ent citizen, 

 soon achieved the deliverance of all — men, women, and 

 children, soldiers and civilians — from the horrors of 

 starvation, combined with the dreadful and constant 

 apprehension of a worse than cruel death. 



It is almost needless to say that this gentleman's name 

 — which ought, and, no doubt, will be ever remembered 

 with gratitude by all — has long since been before the 

 public in connection with th.'s daring exploit, which the 

 author has had the inexpressible pleasure of hearing from 

 his own lips since his arrival in England, whither he was 

 summoned to receive his due reward at the hands of 

 his sovereign in the shape of the ^^ictoria 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 sanofuinarv and merciless ruffians 

 in the night, on foot, carrying under lier arm a small 

 bundle containing all that remained to her of household 

 goods and apparel, and of years of gathering of small 



' See " The Victoria Cross— How I Won It." 



