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hours. Stupid and useless alarms somewhat frequent/ but I deposited 
all our bugles and trumpets in the orderly-room to prevent the young 
recruits beginning them. We were allowed to come from the orderly- 
room during the day into the cooler staff barrack. The ladies are 
stowed away in the Depot of Instruction buildings. 
May 14th .—The man who murdered Mrs. Chambers (Lieutenant C. f 
11th Native Infantry) was brought in this morning by Moller of the 
11th. The Native Infantry officers asked General Hewitt to try him 
at once, but the General declined, saying he was not under military 
jurisdiction. They got into a state of excitement, it seemed likely to 
spread, so I told my Sergeant-Major to get together some of the 
steadiest N.-C.O.'s and men and keep them near at hand. 1 2 Lieutenant 
Chambers, coming into the barracks, went into hysterics ; revolvers 
and swords were taken out. Hewitt sent for Colonel Harriott, Judge 
Advocate, who said that martial law should be proclaimed in canton¬ 
ments and civil district, if civil law were powerless. Mr. Greathed was 
sent for, and said he had already reported the civil law powerless. So 
martial law was proclaimed outside the barracks, to the wondering 
amusement of the men, and a few minutes after Harriott and some five 
officers were seated at a table trying the case. 
Shortly afterwards, I was sent down to the suddur bazaar (main one) 
and lower end of cantonments, with a troop of Carabiniers under 
Bruce, to hunt for seven of Scott's men, who went down there armed 
for the express purpose of getting up a row—blood or loot, they said— 
but they had returned before we got there. Nothing done during the 
night. 
May 15th .—Heard from Umballa that the 9th Lancers and H.M. 75th 
are ordered down. The sappers from Rurkhi, 558 strong, came in to¬ 
day under Captain E. Fraser. They have taken several of our night 
picquets off our hands. Heard from Delhi that the sepoys have been 
plundering the city, and the King has made Jamma Bakht his suc¬ 
cessor, to which the elder son objects ; consequently there is a split. 
Wounded men in hospital getting on well. 
May 16th .—After tiffin we were startled by a report that Captain 
Fraser had been shot by his own men. It turned out but too true. 
All out in a few minutes, and the picquets at their posts. Heard that 
the mutineers had gone across the parade in the direction of the sand- 
1 On one occasion the alarm was “ Look out there, the enemy (!) are coming down on the right.” 
Stopping it proceeding further, I went down the line of sentries till I got to Lieutenant Light’s 
picquet, where it turned out that two young privates of the Carabiniers on vedette, got their 
horse’s tails together with the usual result. “ Look out there, where the —— are you driving to,” 
being wrathfully vociferated, passed down the line, “ viresque acquirebat eundo .” A night 
after Lieutenant Pemberton’s picquet sounded an alarm. The report was that a body of men 
were in front, but the sentries could only hear them. Telling them to turn in, and that it was 
probably some cattle moving about, I rode down the range and came, sure enough, on an old 
Brdhmani bull lowing and pawing the ground. Coming back at a sharp trot, both recruit sentries 
fired at me when about 40 yards ofl‘. My language certainly was not parliamentary, but the 
trumpets next day were lodged in safer keeping. It must be recollected that the recruits were 
very raw ones. 
2 In explanation of this, I should say that Major Tombs and Major Scott were in their own 
barracks. I was commanding on the spot those who would have to act in a sudden emergency, 
and throughout was left almost without orders. But I never saw men so near mutiny as the 
Native Infantry officers were just then, 
