Travels and Adventures of an Officer's Wife in India, China, and New Zealand, Band 1Hurst and Blackett, 1864 |
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Travels and Adventures of an Officer's Wife in India, China, and New Zealand ... Elizabeth M. Muter Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2022 |
Travels and Adventures of an Officer's Wife in India, China, and New Zealand ... Elizabeth M. Muter Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2022 |
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arms army arrived Artillery bank Bareilly barracks battalion bazaar beauty bheestie boats British bungalow cantonment captain capture Cashmere Cavalry Cawnpore centre Chandnee Chillianwallah Chinese Colonel column command commenced Coolies dark deck Delhi depôt Dum-Dum Eastern Monarch enemy England English European fatal feeling fell fire garrison Goojurs Grand Trunk Railway ground guard guns harbour heard hill Himalayah Hindoo Hong-Kong houses hung husband India Infantry Jhelum Jumna Khan ladies land looked massacre Meerut ment miles military Mooradabad mountains murdered Murree mutiny night occupied officers outbreak palace palkee passed Peiho province Punjab quarter regiments revolt rising river road Rohilcund Roorkee Roorkee Field Force rose ruin scarcely scene seen Sepoys Shahjehanpore ship shore side siege siege of Delhi Sir Theophilus Metcalfe soldiers Sowars spot stands station steamer stood stream streets tion town trees troops Umballa vessel walls White Star wind
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Seite 130 - ... appeared at the depot. The dark cloud was a literal fact, as well as a figurative expression, for a column of mist fell over the hill as a pall, penetrating into every house. There it hung like death ; stealing around all the contents, and spreading over them a green and unhealthy mould. Shoes left for the night looked in the morning as if taken from a vault with the rot of a year on them. Scarcely a breath stirred the leaves — nothing moved, except the rain that at intervals fell in torrents....
Seite iii - TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF AN OFFICER'S WIFE IN INDIA, CHINA, AND NEW ZEALAND. By Mrs. MUTER, Wife of Lieut.-Colonel DD MUTER, 13th (Prince Albert's) Light Infantry. 2 vols. 21s.
Seite 21 - SEPOYS. 21 sion had been trained in a Native regiment. One of the points of such training was to place the utmost confidence in the valour and fidelity of the Sepoys. The officers boasted that these battalions had broken French regiments in fair and open fight, and had advanced in the face of dangers where even British troops had flinched. The effects of this teaching were seen when the mutiny commenced. The officers of the regiments which had not yet mutinied pledged their lives on the fidelity...
Seite 18 - But why follow these details — why wonder that our country people cannot comprehend the full barbarity of these unprovoked massacres, when those who saw them recall the scenes more as a dream than as a reality — an enduring impression left by a hideous vision? This bazaar was only PLAX OF THE MUTINY.
Seite 130 - ... when a dark cloud gathered over the station. The cholera had been raging in Cashmere, and the doctor reported some cases of a suspicious nature that appeared at the depot. The dark cloud was a literal fact, as well as a figurative expression, for a column of mist fell over the hill as a pall, penetrating into every house. There it hung like death ; stealing around all the contents, and spreading over them a green and unhealthy mould. Shoes left for the night looked in the morning as if taken...
Seite 77 - WHEN the workmen had finished, we were in possession of a good sitting-room, dining-room, and bed-room, with a dressing-room at either end. The building was too much exposed for comfort in the season now approaching. It was not till the end of November that I really knew what the cold of a Delhi winter morning was. The wind howled through every crevice, and whirled the dust in eddies around the outer court. At night 78 ABUSDAXCE OF SUPPLIES.
Seite 61 - I was busy superintending masons, painters, and carpenters, and renewing what seemed to be the decay of a century of neglect. But the whole palace of the Moguls was a sad picture of dilapidation and dirt. Dirt overlaid everything, dimmed the brightness of paint, and sullied the purity of marble. Mud walls, erected without an apparent object, hid the choicest specimens of architectural beauty, and coats of whitewash covered blocks of sculptured stone. The first appearance raised a doubt if it were...
Seite 37 - M. was left in command of the wing of his regiment that remained. As he, with the few officers present, was required to sleep where the men lay on their arms, I was left much alone. The fatal results of war were soon brought to our door. In a few days the column was met on the Hindun by a Native force from Delhi, when the test regarded by many with so much anxiety 38 THE EARLIEST VICTIMS.
Seite 48 - As such negociation was fruitless, they determined to trust alone in Providence. Calculating that plunder would be the chief object, they all assembled on the flat roof of the large building, and taking only the host with them, they awaited the result, when they were relieved by a party of volunteers from Meerut. On my expressing sympathy for their alarm, she said, with a placid smile : " No alarm was felt, for they were prepared.
Seite 146 - ... had any effect. We proceeded in this manner for days, with little to interest us save the flights of birds, and the drowsy crocodiles basking in the sun. We passed into the Chenab, and as the stream from the junction continues to be called by that name, the greater river is lost in the lesser. Then we received the waters of the Ravee, and next day reached Moultan, the highest spot connected with the sea by steam.