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Mr. Hutchinson (the Collector), of Captain Douglas 

 (the Commandant of the Palace Guards), of the Rev. 

 Mr. Jennings (the Residency Chaplain), who besides 

 officers, their wives and families, civil and non-official 

 residents whose houses were within the city walls, were 

 one and all massacred by the natives in Delhi. 



The dark faces of the Sepoys belonging to the 

 native infantry regiment, which, with one wing of a 

 European regiment stationed within the fort, usually 

 makes up the garrison, were typical of the vast lines 

 of rebel soldiery, variously estimated at from fifty 

 thousand to seventy thousand disciplined men, who 

 must have surged up and down these very thorough- 

 fares, after they had shot down all their own English 

 officers and had thrown all restraint to the winds. 



The Mutiny and the occupation of Delhi fell as 

 a thunderbolt upon India. Warning after warning 

 sent in to headquarters by the collectors and other 

 civil authorities, suspicious circumstances, such as the 

 passing of the chupatties (the sowing of the wind), 

 were alike unheeded, and the English residents in 

 Delhi were left to reap the whirlwind. What the 

 exact motives were to which the Mutiny can be 

 assigned never have been, and never will be, precisely 

 known, simply because between the white man and 

 the black man racial laws have fixed a great gulf, 

 and a European can no more enter into the workings 

 of an Oriental's brain than an Oriental could under- 

 stand a North American Indian chief. 



It is probable that the natives were disturbed by the 



