STUBBS DIARY. 
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March 9tli .—Hume marched for Daurala. Joined him at Khatauli 
next day. To Muzafarnagar on the 11th, where I reported myself to 
Brigadier Cokers staff officer. Made the last three marches (35 miles) 
in two days, reaching Rurkhi, March 13th. 
Ordnance, two 18-prs. and two 8-in. howitzers ; 400 rounds per gun. 
Have only 84 men, the company having left half its number at Govind- 
garh, and not replaced casualties during the siege of Delhi. 
March 15th .—Coke inspected guns, elephants, and bullocks. He 
thought most of the cattle in very poor condition, which is the case. 
Next day h’ad a conversation with him about crossing the Ganges, 
which promises to be a serious operation. The road from the Ganges 
to Najibabad was chiefly through a forest jungle, 23 miles about, and 
there is a probability of being attacked there. Penny, commanding 
the Meerut Movable Column, has, he says, got permission to act on 
his own discretion, so he may walk into Rohilkhand first and leave 
us little to do. Coke’s Rifles, 17tli Punjab Infantry (Major Larkins), 
and Captain Cureton’s Multani Horse are the only troops here as yet. 
Cureton (38th Native Infantry) is son of the fine cavalry officer, 3rd 
Dragoons, killed at Ramnagar nine years ago. 
March 17th-27th .—Indented for various stores, carts, &c., required 
to complete. The whole of the ammunition being in hackeries, some 
kind of ammunition wagon must be devised. Drilling and exercising 
cattle. The Ganges canal is capital for a swim, and many of the men, 
as well as we, use it. When I was here before it was for the opening 
ceremony of the canal in March—April, 1854, with two guns of Siss- 
more’s Battery, and that scoundrel Muhamad Bakht Khan 1 Subadar, 
was with me. How I have longed to be within a sword’s length of him ! 
March 28th , Sunday .■—Austen (Major A. G.) came in with the 1st 
Company, 1st Battalion, and No. 7 Field Battery this morning from 
Umballa; Subalterns J. C. G. Price and A. J. Wake. The 1st Bat¬ 
talion 60th Rifles are coming up, and Colonel J. Jones is to command 
the column. Very glad ; for there are few regiments like the 60th. 
April lst-6th .—Cookes wants me to exchange with him into the 3rd 
Troop, 2nd Brigade (Bourchier’s), but declined ; prefer the 4th Troop 
(C. V. Cox’s). Made four carts into ammunition wagons, removing 
1 Bakht Kh&n led the mutiny at Bareilly. Coming to Delhi he had much influence with the 
King, who made him General. 
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