[Illustration: OUR ENCAMPMENT IN NISHAT BAGH.]
WITH
THE CONNAUGHT RANGERS
IN
QUARTERS, CAMP, AND ON LEAVE.
[Illustration]
BY
GENERAL E. H. MAXWELL, C.B.,
AUTHOR OF “GRIFFIN AHOY!”
LONDON:
HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS,
13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1883.
_All Rights reserved._
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
THE CONNAUGHT RANGERS.
My first Experiences in the Regiment--Toby White--The Castle
Guard--Changes in Ireland--Donnybrook Fair--Half-a-crown’s
worth of Fighting--Ordered to Malta--Affairs in
Syria--Irishmen and Scotchmen--Transports--A Cruel
Joke--Amusements at Malta--Cruise to Candia and Greece--An
old Colonel’s opinion of Rome and its Ruins--Dépôt at
Paisley--Firing a Salute at Dumbarton Castle--March
from Stirling to Aberdeen--Illustrious Tom and the
Blotting-books--Reminiscences 3