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come up just then, the three who did. come in might have done damage, 
none of us had anything but handspikes or clubbed carbines to use, 
my orderly having taken my sword when I mounted the elephant. 
I was also well satisfied with the practice of both detachments. The 
enemy suffered heavily. One of the Multanies told me to-day there 
were lots of dead horses on the ridge but not many bodies, as they had 
carried them away. 1 Austen's left-half battery was on the left, the 
right-half saved that flank and the town from attack, after the heavies 
had dislodged them from the ridge. Austen told me that more than a 
thousand horsemen had collected about the ford near Lodhipur, but 
scuttled when his guns opened. Cureton and the Carabiniers went 
after them. After this we saw no more of them; were ordered to 
bivouac on the ground we occupied. 
Sunday, May 16th .—Went back to camp this morning, but while we 
were at breakfast, Austen's grass-cutters reported some sowars on the 
east side of cantonments, so I had to go out with two 18-prs. and take 
up a position at a salient bend of the nullah with a good view of the 
plain beyond, guarding the nullah for a mile on either side. Captain 
Bowles, 60th, with two companies in a half-ruined bungalow close by. 
Believed by Hume in the evening, he having been relieved by Hitchins. 
May 17th .—Ordered to be under arms at 3.80 a.m. this morning. 
Price, of Austen's battery, went down to the fort with my two 8-inch 
howitzers, and I moved into the position I occupied on Saturday with 
my 18-prs., the Highlanders, and a company of the 82nd. Recalled 
into camp in the afternoon. Scouts report 5000 or 6000 cavalry, with 
six guns. They kept carefully out of our sight, but were seen from 
the 18-pr. battery. Commander-in-Chief comes in to-morrow. 
May 18th .—Suburbs beyond the lower bridge reported full of Muf- 
sids. The Commander-in-Chief came in this morning. Tombs, with 
his Troop (2-1) Horse Artillery; Major Le Mesurier, B.A., with his 
Company 2 and a Heavy Battery, but I did not see them. The fort 
opposite the 18-pr. picquet was seen crowded. Had to waste a lot 
of good ammunition on them, for they w r ere much too far, 3 though we 
could see them plainly: one figure careering on a white horse, said 
to be Firoz Shah. Was ordered down to Lodhipur with a 24-pr. and 
8-inch howitzer. Grot there just after sunset. Lord Clyde there : the 
enemy in numbers out in front; they had knocked over a horse of 
Austen's, and some of his and Tombs' men wounded. 
1 Major Cureton told me afterwards that the people of the two villages near (Salija and Deoriya) 
were employed with charpoys to carry away the wounded and dead. A curious instance of Pathdn 
feeling to an enemy occurred here. The body of the man lying across the trail had been pushed on 
one side while we were firing. A number of Multanies who had been sent to us were standing or 
sitting holding their horses close by. Suddenly the “ dead ” man sat up. He had a severe sabre 
cut in the face across the jaw, but the tongue was able to articulate. He first addressed the 
Multanies, and by his gestures and eyes was plainly abusing them. They laughed as if it was a 
good joke. He then turned to the gunners, giving them a salute, and to me a deep sal&m. Then, 
taking up some earth he sprinkled himself (a symbolical ablution allowed when water is not pro¬ 
curable) and began the Musalm&n Icalima (profession of faith), “ la Allah, ila Allah,” tbe only part 
of his articulation intelligible. Suddenly the Pathan laughter changed to fury. Out flew their 
swords, and Ihe Icalima never was finished. 
2 3-14, B. A. 
3 At the village of Barnai, on the Mohamdi road, distant 3800 yards. 
