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THE ORIENTAL ANNUAL. 
found these poor women, twelve or fourteen in 
number, some dead and others severely wounded, 
huddled together at the bottom of a dry reservoir, 
weltering in their blood. Those who survived were 
tenderly taken care of, and, much to their astonish- 
ment, were restored with all possible respect to such 
friends as chanced to remain to them. A boy, a son 
of the Killadars, was also found severely wounded ; 
and after he recovered, the Duke bestowed upon 
him some villages beyond the hills, where he still 
resides, losing no opportunity of extolling to the 
skies the very wonderful and unexpected generosity 
of the conqueror. 
Colonel Welsh, who was present at the investment 
of Gawilghur, tells an amusing and characteristic 
anecdote, exhibiting a fair specimen of the material 
of which British veterans are composed. He says : 
44 We had been one night working very hard at a 
battery half way up the hill, and afterwards cleared 
a road up to it ; but no power we possessed could 
move our iron battering* guns above a few hundred 
yards from the bottom, so steep and rugged was the 
ascent. I had just been relieved from working by a 
fresh party, and was enjoying a few moments’ rest 
on some clean straw, when the officer commanding 
the working party came up to Colonel Wallace, and 
reported that it was impossible to get the heavy guns 
up to the battery. The Colonel, w T ho was brigadier 
of the trenches, exclaimed, — 4 Impossible ! hoot, 
