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district, who had an eye to appropriating the treasure. As soon as the 
Brigadier was satisfied that he could trust the 31st Regiment Native 
Infantry, he sent a detachment composed of a party of that regiment, 
some of the 3rd Irregular Cavalry who had remained faithful, and pos¬ 
sibly two guns, but of this I am not quite certain, to the relief of the 
Dumoh detachment, and to bring into Saugor the Government treasure 
therefrom. These two companies of the 42nd Regiment Native Infantry 
and the faithful few of the other companies formed the nucleus of the 
present 5th Bengal Native Infantry. The treasure from Dumoh was 
brought safely into Saugor, and the two companies of the 42nd Regi¬ 
ment Native Infantry marched in and settled down in their regimental 
lines. After the 42nd Regiment Native Infantry and the 3rd Irregular 
Cavalry bolted, during the night of the 7th July, a subaltern officer from 
the fort proceeded every evening to the Brigadier's house in canton¬ 
ments, where a post had been established to operate against any 
rebels from the district who might enter cantonments on predatory 
errands. The result of occupying the fort in anticipation of a mutiny, 
and the subsequent precautions taken was, that not a single European 
life was lost, and everything was saved except the copper coin which 
was left in the Treasury. We were, however, for the sake of greater 
safety, shut up in the fort from June 1857 till February 1858, when 
Major-General Sir Hugh Ross marched in with the Central India Field 
Force, when we all moved into cantonments once more. During the 
7^ months of our occupation of the fort, the 31st Regiment Native 
Infantry, or portions of the regiment, were constantly out (almost daily 
for some time), to drive off Bundeela rebels, who used to come down 
from the surrounding hills to lift cattle belonging to the cow-herds and 
other residents of the Bazar, while out grazing. The Sepoys began to 
get so sick of it that they frequently enquired from their officers when 
the European troops were coming. In addition to this harrassing work, 
Brigadier Sage from time to time sent out detachments composed of 
Native Infantry, Native Cavalry, of whom 100 or thereabouts remained 
faithful, and two or more guns of the battery against organised bodies of 
rebels reported to be approaching or hanging about our neighbourhood, 
but they had too great a dread of the guns which had been mounted on 
the fort to come close, one on a traversing platform made in the magazine 
workshops having somehow obtained the reputation of being able to hit 
objects at a distance of five miles! On one occasion, in September 
1857, a detachment thus composed under command of Colonel Dalyell 
proceeded to Nurreeaolee where they had a skirmish with a body of 
rebels. Among the killed on our side was Colonel Dalyell, much 
regretted by all of us. Before the detachment returned to Saugor in 
the evening a report was received that it had been cut off, upon 
which Brigadier Sage asked me to take command of two more guns 
from the battery, to complete the crews for which I was obliged to call 
for volunteers from the warrant and non-commissioned officers of the 
Bengal and Madras Ordnance establishments then working under me. 
I was asked by the Brigadier to take charge of these guns, as Captain 
Marshall had taken with him his only subaltern, and there was no other 
artillery officer in Saugor, except Lieutenant Willoughby, who had not 
