My Diary in India, in the Year 1858-9, Volum 2Routledge, Warne, 1860 - 828 sider |
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My Diary in India, in the year 1858-9. With illustrations Sir William Howard Russell Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1876 |
My Diary in India, in the Year 1858-9, Volum 2 Sir William Howard Russell Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1860 |
My Diary in India, in the Year 1858-9, Volum 2 Sir William Howard Russell Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1860 |
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Alison Allahabad Amethie arms army arrived artillery Bahadoor Bareilly bazaar bheesty breakfast bungalow Buraech Bussahir camp camp-followers carried cavalry Cawnpore charpoy Chief Colonel column coolies covered Delhi dinner dooly elephants encamped enemy English eyes feet fire followed force forest friends front gharry going guns halted hand head heard hill-side hills Hindoo honour horse hour houses India infantry jungle Khoom look Lord Clyde Lord William Hay Lucknow Madho Major Barrow matchlock Meerut miles morning mountain mutiny native night o'clock officers Oude palkee party passed plain Punjaub Purrus Puttiala rain Rajah Rampore Rana rebels regiment riding river road rode round Sahib salaamed sent sepoys servants side sight Sikh Simla Sing Sir Colin Snowy sowars tents Terai to-day told tombs tope trees troops tulwar Umballa valley village walls William Hay
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Side 252 - Albanians, not satisfied with their own property, determined to appropriate to themselves as much as they could carry away of the wealth of the Turks and Jews, in order that it might not fall into the hands of the Greeks. During the night, they plundered the Turks and tortured the Jews to collect money and jewels ; and having secured the connivance of some of the Greek chiefs, they passed through the blockading force, and gained a long march before their escape was generally known in the Greek camp.
Side 417 - But it is so obviously to the advantage of the State, that the Gwalior rebels should be first effectually destroyed, that our relief should be a secondary consideration.
Side 74 - Mahomed by one vigorous effort, it would indeed be well for the Christian faith and for the British rule. But such an effort cannot be made by man ; and any attempt to effect the object .will only add to the difficulties which always lie thick enough in the way of our faith and in the progress of our government.
Side 370 - Beloochees, Lord Clyde sat, with his arm in a sling, on a charpoy, which had been brought out to feed the flames. Once, as he rose up to give some orders for the disposition of the troops, a tired Beloochee flung himself full-length on the crazy bedstead, and was jerked off in a moment by one of his comrades, — " Don't you see, you fool, that you are on the Lord Sahib's charpoy?
Side 402 - ... officer in command was emulous of Neill, and thought he could show equal vigour. In two days forty-two men were hanged on the road-side, and a batch of twelve men were executed because their faces were 'turned the wrong way' when they were met on the march.
Side 417 - The latter post, having now been amply supplied with food, and sufficiently strengthened to defy attack, is no longer a source of anxiety; and however desirable it may be to support me here, I cannot but feel that it is still more important that the Gwalior rebels (said to be preparing to cross into the Doab) should "be first disposed of. I would therefore urge on Brigadier Wilson, to whom I beg you will communicate this as if addressed to himself, that I consider that the Delhi column, strengthened...
Side 43 - All these kinds of vindictive, unchristian, Indian torture, such as sewing Mohammedans in pig-skins, smearing them with pork-fat before execution, and burning their bodies, and forcing Hindus to defile themselves, are disgraceful, and ultimately recoil on ourselves.
Side 149 - I will speak the truth, if the Sahib will not be displeased at it." " Well, pray speak. I am certain that you will not willingly offend us." " Does the Sahib see those monkeys ? They are playing very pleasantly. But the Sahib cannot say why they play, nor what they are going to do next. Well, then, our poor people look upon you very much as they would on those monkeys ; but they know you are very fierce and strong, and would be angry if you were laughed at.
Side 51 - His palace was in reality a house of bondage ; he knew that the few wretched prerogatives which were left to him, as if in mockery of the departed power they represented, would be taken away from his successors; that they would be deprived of even the right to live in their own palace, and would be exiled to some place outside the walls. We denied permission to his royal relatives to enter our service ; we condemned them to a degrading existence, in poverty and debt, inside the purlieus of their...
Side 8 - I had neither sword nor pistol. Just at that moment, a poor wretch of a camel-driver, leading his beast by the nose-string, rushed right across me, and seeing the sowar so close, darted under his camel's belly. Quick as thought, the sowar reined his horse right round the other side of the camel, and as the man rose, I saw the flash of the tulwar falling on his head like a stroke of lightning. It cleft through both his hands, which he had crossed on his head, and with a feeble gurgle of 'Ram! Ram!