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adjutant of his regiment. His experience of military life during 

 these years was by no means such as to inspire him with a desire 

 to continue in active service. He was not permitted to volunteer 

 and join those who were engaged in open conflict with the 

 mutineers, and to him was assigned the unpleasant task of keep- 

 ing watch and ward over disarmed and sulky Sepoys, whose sym- 

 pathies were all with the rebels. At times too, duties of the most 

 revolting nature fell to him, under the severe measures adopted 

 by the commanding officer, such as superintending the execution 

 of those who were caught red-handed in the atrocities perpetrated 

 by the rebels, and who were condemned sometimes by scores to 

 be blown into fragments from the guns. And although the dull 

 routine of cantonment life after the rebellion was suppressed, 

 was broken in upon for a time by the active but unsuccessful 

 search for the arch fiend who was the instigator of it, and at 

 rare intervals he took part in a foray in the jungle or forest ; yet 

 he could not repress the longing for employment more congenial 

 to his tastes, and affording ampler leisure and freedom for the 

 indulgence of his sporting proclivities. 



In the latter part of this period, he bestowed a great deal of his 

 attention on the artillery with which the Indian sportsman was 

 furnished for his encounter with the larger and more savage 

 animals, with a view to render it more safe to himself, and more 

 immediately destructive to his prey. The result was his inven- 

 tion of the explosive buflet, known as "Forsyth's shell," and 

 an improvement of the rifle, so as to increase its power and 

 secure the more direct and accurate flight of its projectile. 



The details of his invention; which he could not be persuaded 

 to patent, were freely given to the sporting world, in The Field, 

 and afterwards more fully, along with his suggestions re- 

 specting the rifle, in his work on "The Sporting Eifle and 

 its Projectiles," a work highly appreciated by sportsmen, and 

 still forming a standard one on the subject. He was preparing 

 for a third edition of this little work, adapted to the changes con- 

 sequent on the introduction of the breech-loader,, at the time of 

 his death. 



The institution of the Staff Corps, in 1861, seemed to my son to 

 open the way for him to such employment as he now coveted, 

 and after a mature consideration, he applied to Mr Temple (now 

 Sir Eichard) to be admitted a member of it, in connection with 



