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stood her in good stead through the many dangers she 

 passed through by her husband's side, and which would 

 have crushed a less dauntless spirit. Although she was 

 everything that was soft, winning, and womanly, her 

 heart knew no fear. During the time of the Sindh 

 Mutiny she rode along with her husband at the head of 

 his regiment, which was disaffected, 129 marches from 

 Umballa to Shikarpore, where the mutiny burst out. 

 They were encamped in the month of July under canvas 

 at Roree on the Indus, with the thermometer ranging 

 from 127° to 130° F. daily in the shade. Strange to say, 

 during that heat they had only one man sick in hospital, 

 although after they reached their head-quarters at Shi- 

 karpore, only Colonel Turnbull and eleven of his men 

 remained fit for duty. On their long march from Shi- 

 karpore to Muttra, they rode over the late battlefield of 

 Ferozeshah to reach their camp. When proceeding 

 with the Bombay column from Sukkur eji route for 

 Mooltan, before the surrender of that fort. Sir Charles 

 Napier stopped the regiment, at the head of which was 

 the Colonel and his wife, to compliment her on the 

 example she had set during her two years' stay in Sindh. 

 Sir Charles and his staff often drank a toast after dinner 

 to " The Star of the Desert," as they used to call her. 



