Up Among the Pandies: Or, A Year's Service in India |
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1st Bengal Fusiliers Allahabad appearance arrived baggage Bagh bank Bareilly beautiful behold Bheesties body bright bullets bullocks Calcutta camels camp capture case-shot cavalry Cawnpore cheroot cloth extra cloth gilt cloth lettered column dark death Delhi doolies dust Edition elephants endeavour enemy England English excitement eyes fact fcap 8vo feeling fire force Fyzabad Goomtee guns hands heat Hindoo HISTORY horse artillery India infantry Iron Bridge JULIUS CÆSAR Kaiserbagh legs look Lucknow Maun Singh miles minarets morning mutiny native Nawab-gunge night noise officers once one's Oude Outram palace palanquin Pandy pariah dogs passed picket pleasant Portrait post 8vo rain reader regiment Rifle river round Royal Artillery Royal Welsh Fusiliers scene seemed Sepoys shot side siege Sikhs Sir Colin soldiers sort streets syces tents trees troops tulwar village walls weary whole wretched
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