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Exeter Advocate, 1913-7-3, Page 2of the Garrison; Then valley, Oct 1;1841,--Th e bif tb Bene sal and the Thirty-third Queen's paesed '#i• the : 1 their way to rail pith i y roe this mon th lit g g front, 11tad tit'ln with the l3etagalrse, Lat- est new frolu, Monte that two attempts WI. been made on the Queerer life be' selui-mauiav:a to Francis and Bean. It. promisee to be a hard winter. The, BMW line hoe descended a 014:extend 'feet upon the peaks, but the passes will be, open .for weeks to come, and eveu if they 'wereblocked, we have estehlished so many depots in the country tl+at Pollock stud Nott will have no dt'feetilty ie. holding their own. 'they shall. not 'meet with the fate of I;lphinstone'e .army. Olio .sttch tragedy Is enough for a ceutniy. Elliott, of the Artillery, and I, are answerable foe the safety of the cone eranicatious: for a, distance of twenty miles or more, from the mouth of the valley to this side of the wooden bridge, over the Doter. Goodenough, of the .Rifles, is responsible on the ether side: and Liees tens ntseenenel Sidney Herbert, of the En- gineers, has a general. 'supervision over both. sections. Our force is not strong enough for the work which .has to bo done. I have a. company and a half of our own regiment, and a squadron of Fowars, who are of no use at all among the reeks. Elliott has three guus, but several of his men are down with elealera, and I doubt if be has enough to serve more than two, (Note: Capsicum for chol- era --tried it.) On the other hand eaeh convoy is usually provided with some guard of 1ta own, though it is often ab- surdly inefficient, These valleys and rav- ineswhich branch out of the main pass are alive with Afreedees and Pathaus, who are keen robbers ae well; as religiose fanatics. I weeder they don't swoop down on some of our caravans. They could plunder them and get backto their mountain fastnesses before we could in- terfere or overtake them. Nothing but fear will restrain them. If I bad my way I would hang one at the mouth of every ravine as a, warning to the gang. They are personifieations of the devil to lack at, hawknosed, fell -lipped. with a wane of tangled hair, and meet Satanic sneer. leo news to -day Irom the front, October 2.—I must really ask Herbert for another company at the very least. I am oonvinced that the communications would be cut oil' if any serious attack were made upon us. Now, this morning two urgent messages were sent me from two different points more than sixteen miles apart, to say that there were signs of a descent of the tribes. Elliott, with oue gun and the Sowers, went to the farther ravine, while I, with the infantry, hurried to the other; but we found it was a false alarm. I saw no sigus of the hilimen, and though we were greeted by a sputter of jezail bullets we were nti- able to capture any of the rascals. Woe betide them if they fall into my bands! I would give them ae short a shift ae ever a Highland cateran got from a ellas- gow judge. These coutinued alarms may mean nothing or they may be an indiea tion that the hitlmen are assembling and have some plan in view. We have had ne news from the front for some • time, but to -day a convoy of wounded came through with the intelli- gence that Nott had taken ILhuznee. I hope be warmed up any of the black ras- oafs that fell into his hands- No ward of Pollock. An elephant battery came up from the Punjaub, looking in a very good condition. There were several convales-. rents with it going up:to to rejoin their regiments. Knew none of them except Mostyn of the Euasars and young Blakes- ley, who. was my fag at Charterhouse, and whom I have never seen since. Paneh and cigars alfresco up to eleven o'clock. Letters to -day from wade & Co. about their little bill forwarded on from Delhi. Thought a campaign freed a man from these annoyances. Wills says in els note that since his written application have been in vain, he must call upon me in person. If he calls upon me now he will assuredly be the boldest and most per- severing of tailors. A line from Calcutta Daisy and another from Hobhouse to say' that Matilda comes in for all the money under the will. I am glad of it. October 3.—alorioue news from the front to -day. Barclay, of tbe Madras Cavalry, galloped through with dispatches. Pollock entered Cabul triumphantly on the 16th of last month, and, better stili, Lady Sale has been reamed by Shakes - pear, and brought eafe into the British camp. together with the other hostages. "Te Denm landamus!" This should end the whole wretched business—this and tbe sack of the city. •I hope Pollock won't be squeamish, or truckle to the hysterical party at home. The town should be Laid in ashes and the fields sown with salt. .Above all, the Residency and the Palace Must come down, So shall Burns, Ide- I anghten, and many another gallant fel- low know that his countrymen could avenge if they could not save him! It is hard when others are gaining glory and experience to be stuck in this miser- able valley. I have been out of it com- pletely, bar a few petty skirmishes. how- ever, we may see some service yet. A jemidar of ours brought in a hiilman to- day, who says that. the tribes are mass- ing in the Terada ravine, ten miles to the north of us, and intend attaeking the next convoy. We can't rely an information of this sort, but there may prove to be some truth in it. Proposed to shoot, our informant, so as to prevent his playing rested fire. The leaders were bowled over, the double traitor and reporting our pre-' and the others, after hesitating for a few ceedings. Elliott demurred. If you are momente, , turned and made for the rooks. making war you should throw no chance It was our turn now to assume the often - away. I hate half-and-half measures. The sive. The guns were unlimbered and Children of Israel seem to have been the grape poured into them, while our little only people whoever carried war to its infantry force advanced at the double, logical conclusion—except Cromwell in Ire- shooting and stabbing all whom they over - Affair, hands upon h'iin. We expect the convoy to -morrow morning, •and need anticipate noattack until it eoniea up, for these ,felt lows #1 ght for plunder, oi, notfor glory, or� , though, i} de them`x est icee'they haveYe ''enty of frliik when they get started: 1 bare devises' an excellent plan, sted it lute Elliott's hearty support. ely Jove! if we eau only maltitge it, it will be as pretty a rase as ever I heard oft Our intention is to give ant that we are go- ing down the valley to meet the convoy and to Sleek the mouth of a pater from which we profess to expect' an attack. Very good. 'Si e shall make a night march to -night and reach their eamp. Once them. I shall coneeal may two hundred men in the wagons and travel up with the oauvoy again. Our friends the enexuy having heard tlyat we intended to go south, and seeing the caravan going north without Ile, will naturally ewoop dawn up- on it under the impression that we are twenty miles away. We shall, teach them such a lesson that, they would as soon think of stopping a thunderbolt as of in- terfering again with one of filer Britan- nie Majesty's provision trains. T ant all an thorns to be off - Elliott has rigged up two of his -guns so ingeniously that they leek more like eeetermongers' barrows tbau anything else, To see artillery ready for action in the oouvoy alight arouse suspicion. The artillerymen will be in the wagone next the guns, all ready to unlimber and open fire. Infantry, in front and. rear; Have told our confidential and disereet SeDo' servants the plan which we do not in- tend to adopt, le, D.—If you wish a thing to be noised over a whole province always whisper it under a vow of secrecy to your confidential native servant. 8.45 p,m,—Just starting for -the convoy. May luck go with nal October 5. ---Seven o'clock in the evening. To triumphal drown us with laurel— Elliott and myself! '~Tho eau compare, with us as vermin killers? I have only just got back, tired and weary, stained with blood and dust, but I have eat down before either 'washing ar changing to have the satisfaction of seeing our deeds set forth in black and white—if only in my private log for no eye but my owe. I shall describe le all fully as st• prepara- tion for our official account, which must be drawn up when Elliott gets back. Billy Dawson used to say that there were de- grees of comparison—a prevarication, a lie, and an official account. We at least canted exaggerate our success, for it would be impossible to add anything to it. We set out then, as per programme, and came upon the camp near the head of the valley. They had two weak compan- ies of the 54th with them wbo might no doubt have held their owu with warning, but an unexpected rush of wild hilimen Is a very difficult thing to stand against. With aur reinforcement, however, and on our guard, we might defy the rascals. Chamberlain was in command—a, fine young fellow. We soon made him under- stand the situation, and were all ready for a start by daybreak, though his wag- ons were so full that we were compelled to leave several tone of fodder behind in order to make room for my Sepoye and for the artillery. ,About five o'clock we inspanued, to use an Africanism, and by six we were well on our way, with our escort as straggling and unconcerned as possible—as helpless looking' a caravan as ever Invited attack - I could see that it was to be no false alarm this time, and that the tribes really meant business. From my post of observation under the canvas screen of one of the wagons I could make out tur- baned heads popping up to have a look at us from among the' rooks, and an oc- casional scout hurrying northwardwith the news of our approach. It was not, however, until wo came abreast of the Terada Pass, a gloomy defile bounded by gigantic elide, that the Afreedees began to show in force, though they had. am- bushed themselves so cleverly that had we not been keenly on the lookout for them, we might have walked right into the trap. As it was, the convoy halted, upon which the hilimen seeing that they were observed, opened a heavy but ill - directed fire upon us. I had asked Cham- berlain to throw out his men in skirm- ishing order, and give them directions to retreat slowly upon the wagons so as to draw the Afreedees on. The rues suc- ceeded to perfection. As the redcoats steadily retired, keeping behind cover as much as possible, the enemy followed them up with yells of. exultation, spring- ing from rock to rock, waving their je- zails in the air, and howling like a pack of demons.. With their black, contorted, mocking fates, their fierce gestures, and their fluttering garmente, they would have made a study for any painter who wished to portray Milton's conception of the army of the damned. From every side they pressed in until seeing, as they thought, nothing between them and vic- tory, they left the shelter of the rocks and came rushing' down a furious, howling throng, with the green banner or the. Prophet in their ran. Now was our chance, and gloriously we utilized it. From every cranny and slit of the wag- ons came a blaze of fire, every shot of which told among the cleee-packed mob. Two or three score rolled over like rab- bits and the rest reeled for a moment, and then, with' their chiefs at their head, came an again in a magnificent rush. It was useless, however, for undisciplined men to attempt to face each a well-di- land—made C compromise at last by which the man is to be detained as a prisoner and executed if hie information proves to be false. I only hope we get a, fele chance of showing what we can do. No doubt these fellows at the front will have C. B,'e and knighthoods showering upon them thick and fast, while we poor devils, who have had moat of the resi5oneibtlity and anxiety, will be paesed over com- pletely. Elliott. has a whitlow. The last convoy left Ira a large packet of eauees. but as they forgot to leave anything to eat with them, we have banded them over to the Sowers, who drink them out of their panuikins as if they were liquors. We hear that another large convoy may be expeeted from the plains in the course of a day or two. Took nine to four on Cleopatrafor the Calcutta Cup. October 4. --The hiilmen :really mean business this time, I think. We have heck two of our spies home in this morning with the same aocount about the gath- ering in the Terada quarter. That old rascal Zemaun 1s at the bead of it, and I have reeommended the Government to present him with a telescope in return for bis neutrality! There will be no Zemann to present it to if 3 can but lay any Outing Shapes For Everybody THE PERFECT SHOE FOR SUMMER swim A511 YOUr bEALElt. took. Never have I known the tido of battle to turn so rapidly and so .decieive- ly. The sullen retreat became a flight, and the flight a panic-stricken rout, un- til there was nothing left of the tribes- men except a scattered demoralized rabble flying wildly to their native fastness for shelter and protection. I was by no means inclined to let them off cheaply now that I had them in my power. On the contrary, I determined to teach them such a lesson that the eight el a single scarlet uniform would in fn tura be a passport in itself. We followed hard upon the track of the fugitives and: entered the Terada defile at their very heels. Saving detached Chamberlain and Elliott. with a company on either side to protect my wings, 1 pueelied on with my Sepoys and a handful of artillerymen, tieing.. tem- nd,:time to, rally .or • to re- cover themselves. We were so handl- capered, however, by our stif European uniforms and by aur want of practice in climbing, that we should have been un- able to overtake any of the.mouutai.neers had it not been for a fortunate accident.' There ie a smaller ravine, which opens in- to the main pees, and in their hurry and confusion some of the fugitives rushed down this. I eaw sixty orseventy of them turn dawn, bit I should have paused them by and continued in pursuit of -the main body had net one of my snouts eome rushing up to inform me that the smaller ravine was a cul -do -sac, and that the Afreedees who had gone up -it had no Possible means of getting' out nga•in ex- eept by cutting their way :avowal our ranks. Hare was an opportunity of etrik- ang terror into the tribes. LeavingOham- borlain a d Hulett to continue- the pur- stet of, the main body, x wilcelefi my Sopoys into the narrbw, pats and pro- ceeded slowly down it in extended ordal+, covering the whole ground from cliff to elite. Not a Jackal could have peeled us unease, The rebels were naught like rats in a trap: • The defile in which we 'found otireelvos was the most gloomy and majeetit that I have elver soon. Oneither bide, naked peetelpicoe rose aheor ttp fom a thousand feet or more, converging upon each other AIS:. TEA AT ITS BEST Its garden freshness: and fine flavour � #1 our ace protected a td by the sealed lead packet which keeps the goodness' in, and all contamination out. 075 -~LACK, MIXED er GREEN. so' n -s to leave a very narrow slit of day- light above us, which was farther re- duced by the feathery fringe of palm trees and aloes whteh hung .over each lip of the chasm. The cliffs were not mare than a couple of hundred yardei apart et the entrance, but as we advanced they grew nearer aud nearer, until a half cone - pasty in close order could hardly march abreast. A cart of twilight reigned in this strange valley, and the dim, uncer- tain light made the great ],asait rocks loons up vague and fantastio. There wee no path; and the ground was moat un- even. but I peebed on briskly, cautioning my fellows to have their fingers on their triggers,. for I- could see that we were nearing the point where the two chide would form an aeute angle with eaeh other, At last we came in ,sight of the place. A. great pile of boulder's' were heaped up at the very end of the pass, and among these our fugitives were skulking, entire- ly demoralized apparently, aud incap- able of resistance. They were useleee as prisoners, and it was out of the question to let them go, so there 'wae no choice but to polish then' ote Waving my sword, I was leading -my men on, when we bad a most • dramatic interruption of a sort which I have eeen once or twice on the boards of Drury Lane, but never in real life. In the side of the cliff, close to the pile of stones where the hillmen were making their last stand, there was a cave whieb looked more like the lair of some wild beast than a human habitation. Out of this dark archway -there suddenly emer- ged an oid man—such a very, very old man that all the other veterans whom I hare seen were as chickens compared to him. His hair and beard were both as white as suave, and eaeh reached more than half way to his walet. Hie face was wrinkled and brown and bony, a crass between a monkey and a mummy, and so thin and emaciated were his shriveled limbs that you would hardly have given him credit for having any vitality left, were it not for his eyes, which glittered and sparkled with excitement, like two diamonds in a setting of mahogany. This apparition came rushing out of the cave, and, throwing himself between the fugi- tives and our fellows, motioned us.baok with as' imperious a sweep of the hand as ever an emperor used to his slaves, "Ivien of blood," he cried, in a voice of thunder, speaking excellent English, too - "this ° is a place for prayer and medita- tion, not for murder. Desist, lest the wrath of the gods fall upon you." "Stand aside, old man, I shouted. "Yon will meet with. a hurt if you don't get out of the way." 'I could see' that the hi'llmen were taking heart, and that some of my Sepoye were flinching, as if they did not relish this new enemy. Clearly, I must aot promptly if wished to complete our success. I dashed forward at the head of the white artillerymen who had Ittuele' to me, The old fellow rushed at ue With his aims out as if to stop us; but it was no time to stick at trifles; so I ;passed any sword through his body at the same mo- ment that one of the gunners brought his carbine down upon hie head. He dropped instantly; and the hilimen, at the eight of his fall, set up the most unearthly howl of horror and consternation. The Sepoys, who had been inclined to hang back, came en again the moment he was disposed of, and it did not take us long to, conaummate our victory. Hardly a man of the enemy got gut of the defile alive. What could Hannibal or Caesar bare done more? Our own loss in the whole affair has' been ineigniecant—three killed and about fifteen wounded. Got. their banner, a green wisp of a thing with a sentence of the Koran engraved upon it. (To be continued.) -- 'b WHOOPING COUGH CURE. Paris Doctor Thinks Remedy Is in. Sight. The possibility of the discovery in the near future of a cure for whoop- ing cough was held out recentlyat the Academy of Sciences by Dr. Emile Roux, director of the Pasteur Institute and a member of the Aca- demy of Medicine, Dr, Roux was merely transmit- ting the report of Dr. Alfred Con- or, bacteriologist, of the . Belvedere. Military hospital, Tunis, where, with the collaboration of Dr. Nic- olla, he had prepared a, solution containing living cough .baccil)i which he injected into his children suffering from the disease, repeat- ing it every 'two' days. Thirty-seven per cent. of the ehil- dren recovered °in less than three weeks, whereas under the ordinary treatment the 'mildest attack lasted two :and sometimes five or six months. Of the rest forty per cent. improved greatly, while the remain- ing twenty-three per cent. were not affected °either for good or bad. Dr. Roux while declaring the ex- periments xperi iiants thus' far were on, too small a scale to make a, definite pro- nouncement, said he beliehd an effective cure for whooping cough was in sight. Facts Against Alun. An old negro was charged with `having stolen ar-hog. The facts were all against him. He had no col risel, and when the ,judge asked him 'if he wanted a lawyer assigned to de- fend him he declared that he did not. "But you are entitled to a lawyer," the Court explained, "and you might as well have the benefit of his services.'' "Yoah ,Honor would jos' gimme some cheap white trash lawyer the old darkey re- plied, `rand lie wouldn't do'm'e no good. If it's jes' de same to yoah Honor I'd 'rather &open' on de ig' n'ranee ob de Court." On the Farm Poultry Pointers. Recp the 'eggs in 4 cool, ;dry room or cense Attend to the machine carefully and at regular hours, or eheno Always the n china Iva t y nest eggs before setting. 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