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JOURNAL OF MAJOR GEORGE BROOKE. 
and French cuirass, looking handsome in face and figure, the very 
chevalier of Seiks. 
The chief adviser, styled “ Faquir,” 1 stood there also. Floor 
carpeted with shawl carpets, the coup d’ceuil was more curious than 
magnificent, under the mixture of dresses Asiatic, European and semi- 
demi both. The enclosure was full of the Guards or Ghorchilabs, 
dressed in silk and kinkhaub, armed at fancy. Saw the given howitzers 
there, and the golden charpoy, 2 an insignificant bijou. 
Entered into confab with the Seiks, who there were exceedingly 
polite, far more than we were on our side to them. Their inquisitive¬ 
ness great on the price of articles of uniform and pay received. 
The interview closing fast, we returned ere the crowd began, and 
crossed over before the stir. 
December 1st .—Troops paraded for rehearsal. Graham, 3 unwilling 
to take his place with the Commander-in-Chief, placed himself at the 
head of 3rd Troop in the centre of the line 4 and disposed of the Majors, 
one to each division. All went on well with the artillery. General 
Cotton, so fond of lording and wigging, caught it twice from the 
Commander-in-Chief very lightly. . . . After parade Sir W. Cotton 
came down upon Brigadiers. Marching past at the end was a beautiful 
sight. Graham with leading troop ; Brooke with 3rd troop in centre ; 
Pew with Camel Battery. 5 
December 3rd .—The army reviewed in the morning. The coming 
down upon the line of the Governor-General and Runjeet Singh was 
splendid : passing down the line, he noticed guns everywhere ; well 
mounted and plainly dressed as before; few guards, and all orderly as 
such a mass could be. Saw the troops pass by, going out of the column, 
and returning to go by, then out again: 6 quite magnificent the show 
of the army. Buffs and European regiment 7 most distinguished. 
1 Aziz-ud-din, one of the ablest ministers of Runjeet, and later of Dhuleep Singh. 
2 Bed. Chdr-pdi = four feet. 
3 He was to have commanded the artillery with the Afghan Army as Brigadier. 
4 Of the horse artillery on the right of the cavalry: the foot artillery being on the right of the 
infantry. 
5 The artillery on parade and staff were :— 
Colonel C. Graham, c.B., 1st Brigade, Horse Artillery. 
Major P. L. Pew, 4th Battalion, Field Artillery. 
» G- Brooke, 2nd Brigade, Horse Artillery. 
Captain E. F. Day, Commissary of Ordnance. 
Brevet-Capt. J. B. Backhouse, 1st Brigade, Horse Artillery, Brigade-Major. 
2nd Troop, 2nd Brigade, Horse Artillery, Captain C. Grant. 
3rd n a i, ,i „ „ J. Alexander. 
4th ir 3rd n ,i 11 n H. Timings. 
3rd Company, 2nd Battalion, No. 6 Horse Field Battery, Captain T. Sanders. 
2nd „ 6th „ „ 6 Camel „ „ „ A. Abbott. 
4th „ 2nd „ Reserve Company, Captain H. Garbett. 
. They would be thus on parade from the right—Horse Artillery right of Cavalry, Field Artillery 
right of Infantry. 
G That is, after the Horse Artillery had passed the saluting point, he disengaged and took post 
with the Staff; rejoining his troop for the gallop past by the left. 
' The Bengal European regiment; afterwards the 1st Bengal Fusiliers, and now the 1st Battalion 
Royal Munster Fusiliers. The ward “ dressed ” refers to alignment—not uniform. This and the 
preceding note may perhaps be deemed superfluous. Regarding the Buffs, they were in full 
strength and healthy, while the 13th had been reduced by sickness. But the performance of the 
latter on service left nothing to be desired. 
