i86 Indian Racing Reminiscences. 



She was present with her husband at Shikarpore during- 

 the Sindh Mutiny, when that wily old General, George 

 Hunter, induced a Native Infantry regiment to proceed 

 to Sukkur to have their supposed grievances inquired 

 into, and then trapped them on arrival by a wing of the 

 13th Light Infantry and a masked battery of European 

 artillery. This ri/se resulted in about sixty of the 

 mutinous ringleaders being given up on threat of the 

 regiment being annihilated. Fifty were transported for 

 life, and eight were hanged on one gallows. Seven of 

 the latter spared all trouble to the executioner by 

 jumping off the platform, and thereby strangling them- 

 selves ; while the eighth continued to call on his 

 regiment to come to his rescue until the bolt was drawn. 

 Out of many hair-breadth escapes, three of the closest 

 which Colonel Turnbull had were when he escaped the 

 Cabul massacre in the first Afghan war by being sud- 

 denly transferred from the 5th to the 7th Light Cavalry ; 

 when, at Wuzeerabad, the massive court-house, which 

 was built on sand-brick pillars, came down with a run 

 during a storm, and buried the table which Colonel 

 Turnbull had just quitted to avoid the wind ; and when 

 on a night alarm during the Sikh war, as he was riding 

 full gallop to the main-guard to turn the regiment out. 



