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troop of cavalry, and almost trampled to death. He was again 

 severely wounded in colonel Bailie's memorable action in the Car- 

 natic, and finished his short career of glory in a subsequent engage- 

 ment with the sultan of Mysore. 



In the battle of Arras the confederates lost several principal 

 officers, and upwards of a thousand men, with a number of horses 

 and elephants; many of the Mahrattas fell in attempting to carry 

 off the killed and wounded, an act of humanity to which they 

 pay the greatest attention. They seldom leave a body on the 

 field, and venture almost to the cannon's mouth, rather than suffer 

 the remains of a friend to be exposed: out of the number killed 

 in this action only seven bodies were found after their retreat. 



The dreadful scenes on the field of battle before the sepulture 

 of our dead, and the removal of the wounded, together with the 

 groans of elephants, camels, horses and oxen, expiring by hun- 

 dreds, united to the noise of vultures, and screams of other raven- 

 ous birds hovering over them, realized the sublime invitation in 

 sacred writ for the birds of prey to come to the feast of death. 

 " Come, and gather yourselves together, that ye may eat the flesh 

 of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, 

 and the flesh of horses, and of them that sat thereon, both small 

 and great/' 



The traitor Hurra Punt, who betrayed our unfortunate detach- 

 ment into the enemy's hands, was punished as his infamous con- 

 duct deserved; a grenadier sepoy of the British line pulled him 

 from his horse, and Ragobah's Arabs, who had suffered severely by 

 his treachery, cut him to pieces. 



We continued several hours on the field of battle, assisting the 



