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Ave were obliged to continue our retreat. A corporal 

 was now shot down, mortally wounded. In endeav- 

 ouring to carry Mm off a delay occurred, and here 

 unfortunately the Sunya tripped and fell over the 

 rocks. Again the " All ! Ali ! " rang out, and in a 

 moment they were into us again. They were again 

 driven back, but not before they had cut down the 

 poor wounded Naick, who with his last breath was 

 urging us to go on and leave him to his fate. His 

 murderer fell with him, shot. "We had still some 

 miles of hilly ground to go over, but the enemy con- 

 tented themselves by firing into us, thereby wounding 

 another sepoy. But they never came near us again ; 

 and probably seeing the rest of the company hurrying 

 out to help us, they now made off. The first shots 

 had been fired about one o'clock, the last at five. 



Here is an instance of an outrage committed by 

 a small party of malcontents against the wishes of 

 the great body of the tribe, and a noble instance of 

 the devotion and courage of our sepoys under most 

 trying circumstances. One of the independent chiefs 

 with us was shot through the face, and the three 

 Syuds above mentioned remained, though unarmed, 

 among the sepoys all day. 



The Fakir's party returned to Gandao, and did not 

 show up again for some months, but meantime played 

 on the feelings of the Khwaizais, between whom and 

 the Khan of Lalpoorah the dispute regarding the river 

 subsidy was still going on. Urged on by him, they 



