SEPOYS ON HOAllD SHIP. 



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Wo made a long and tetUous voyage to Sincajmre, 

 not arriving until the Slat. 



TliD Admiral immediately despatched the Afwkland 

 HtG^mer, which returned with the Mot/alid in tow, on the 

 1 Gth of November, bi^inging accounts of the progress made 

 in the baiTaeka for the Sepoj troops, as well as of the 

 sickly state of aU tliose wlio wore located on the fiat. It 

 was decided, that we should embark a company of the 

 21st Nativo Infantry, under charge of my friend, Captain 

 Doughis HamiltojL This we did on the morning of the 

 S2nd; and sailing immediately afterwards, on the evening 

 of the sixth day we anchored off one of the islands 

 outside Labnan. It was well that we made so quick a 

 p£Lmgo : tJie poor Sepoys, who wcro as docile and 

 obliging as they could be, under the circumstanc^^s, and 

 appeared grateful for the arrangements wo had made for 

 their comfort^ were etill not happy. Wlien they came on 

 board we had just refitted, and had been fresh painted. 

 Now Jolm Sepoy is a clean animal on shore, vfhen lie can, 

 without being seen, get rid of the red juice produced by 

 the betel-nut and chmiam, which, he is constantly masti- 

 cating ; but, when he is so situated that one sees 

 everything about him besmeared with the stains of the 

 nasty-looking liquid, superadded to tlie influence of sea- 

 sickness, then is, he a very changed and unattractive 

 creature. We gave our Sepoy troops one side of the 

 main-deck entirely to themselves. 



The Rajhpoots of the company being, next to the 



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