final journey. It was daylight when we descended the Ghauts, a most
wonderful piece of engineering. The railway goes down a sheer fall of
nineteen hundred feet, in a succession of zig-zags. Our train was a
long one. The carriage we were in was at the end, and, in looking out
of the window, the engine, with its following, seemed another train on
quite a different line far below us.
It was the afternoon when we reached Bombay. It has left no very
distinct impression on my mind, as we proceeded direct from the station
to the tug, which took us off to the huge _Jumna_, that was lying
waiting for us. We were fortunate in every respect in our voyage in
her. The weather was perfect, and Captain Richards, the captain of
_H.M.S. Jumna_, was unvaryingly kind and courteous. On the 17th of
November, the shores of India faded away, never to be looked on by me
again. The splendid ship we were in, with its luxurious comforts, was a
contrast to the vessel in which I had come out to India thirteen years
before.
Now, on our return home, we were embarked in a magnificent troopship.
I think there were seventeen hundred souls on board, but everything was
in such beautiful order that there was no confusion. My regiment got on
capitally, and Captain Richards reported very favourably of the men’s
conduct when in his ship.
1870–71 was the last season that regiments were conveyed across the
isthmus from Suez to Alexandria by train. We left the _Jumna_
with much regret. The train was drawn up almost immediately alongside.
We started in the evening from Suez, and arrived at Alexandria about
seven o’clock next morning--one man short. He got out in the desert
to get a drink--as we heard long afterwards--and the train went on
without him, in consequence of which he lost his home passage, as well
as his train. On arrival at Alexandria, we embarked at once on a tug,
and proceeded on board the _Crocodile_. One of the many children
that were accompanying their parents home distinguished himself on the
short trajet from the wharf to the troopship by carefully untying the
fastenings of a cage-door, and letting loose a very valuable minar,
which the unconscious owner had brought at great trouble to himself
from the far north of India. I do not think he ever knew how his bird
escaped. Minars speak most perfectly, much more distinctly and with a
better imitation of the human voice than a parrot.
It is very annoying losing a pet, especially when the conviction must
be that it will inevitably come to grief. I recall a curious case of
the sort which happened in Scotland at my old home. My sister-in-law
had a parrot, which had been the object of her care for many years.
In fine summer weather, when the windows were open, it flew out, and
enjoyed itself very much among the trees in front of the house, and,
when called, returned to its cage. One day a sudden gale of wind came
on, and the poor bird was carried away before it. A great search was
made; but it never came back. My sister read in the county paper an
advertisement, couched in the following term: ‘Found, a parrot. Anyone
having lost the same, apply to,’ &c., &c. In hopes that this referred
to her lost favourite, she wrote a full description of Lorry, and
anxiously waited for the reply. Her disappointment was great when she
received the following answer to her application: ‘Milady, i am sorry
to say that it was a _farot_’ (ferret), ‘and not a _parot_,
that was found.’
The _Crocodile_ was a fac-simile of the _Jumna_, with the exception
of not being painted white. In the Mediterranean, we were caught in
a gale, and found that the _Crocodile_ was not distinguished without
cause for her powers of rolling. The storm delayed us three days, as we
could make no headway against the wind. It was the last rough weather
we encountered, but as we neared our own latitudes the cold became
intense. Nothing could have looked much more miserable than we poor
denizens of a warm climate did that 21st of December, as, with eager
eyes and longing expectation, we crowded the sides, and looked at the
goal of our hopes for long years--home! Take the Solent on a fine,
bright, sunny day in summer, with yachts and pleasure-boats glancing
over the surface of the rippling water, and you will say it is a fair
sight to see, but what we looked on now was a grey and leaden sky,
the whole country under snow, and an occasional flake in the air,
proving there was a good deal more to fall. Slowly we came into our
berth alongside the quay, and it did seem a realization of our long
dreams when friends and relations flocked over the gangway, and warmly
welcomed us back to the old country.
The next day we disembarked. The snow that had been threatening was
now falling, and it was freezing very hard. One month previous the sun
was shining and the thermometer marked 86°. The men of the 88th, with
their white-covered helmets on their heads, had, like all of us, red
noses and yellow faces. We thought it was positively cruel to bring us
suddenly from intense heat to bitter cold, but, in spite of shudders
and chattering teeth, we all felt an exhilarating glow on that 22nd of
December, 1870, when we disembarked during an eclipse of the sun and
in a blinding snowstorm. The 88th regiment proceeded to Fort Grange,
and that night thirty men were taken into hospital with bronchitis.
The regiment did not remain very long quartered in the forts, but were
moved over to Portsmouth, where it occupied the Cambridge Barracks.
What a changed place is Portsmouth now that the old walls have been
removed! It has assumed a gay and youthful look. Midshipman Easy
would not recognise it, and the old tars of former days would feel
quite adrift. The last ten years have greatly improved its outward
appearance. It was always a favourite quarter, being so near the Isle
of Wight, and the young officers of the different regiments stationed
in Portsmouth and the neighbourhood kept the ‘tambourin a-roulin,’ as
no doubt they do still.
There was a good anecdote told about the subaltern of the main guard
at Portsmouth during the time that a noble lord was commanding the
district. A ball was to take place at the Southsea Rooms, and, as
ill-luck would have it, the hero of my story was in orders for guard
the very day of the ball, and could get no one to exchange duties with
him. Despair filled his mind, for _she_ was to be there, and he
was engaged to her for several dances. Cupid, they say, laughs at
locksmiths, so, I presume, goes into fits when a subaltern’s guard is
mentioned as an excuse for being a recreant knight. So our hero decided
he would, like Cinderella, go to the ball for only a certain time. As
the other officers were in uniform, his costume was not remarkable,
but he kept his eyes on the general, and once, when whispering soft
words into his fair one’s ears, he saw his lordship give a start as he
looked towards him, and felt sure he saw his lips form themselves into
the appearance of a strong expletive.
In a short time the general called his aide-de-camp, and our young
warrior looked out for squalls. He followed his lordship to the door,
saw him get into his carriage, and heard him give the order, ‘To the
main guard!’ Away flew the fiery steeds. On arrival of the general,
‘Guard turn out!’ was shouted. Everything was correct. The officer
was at his post, and reported ‘all correct.’ This ought to have been
sufficient for the visiting officer, and satisfied him that he had made
a mistake, but, if all stories be true, the then commander-in-chief at
Portsmouth never made a mistake, _in his own opinion_. He called
the young officer to him, and asked him, ‘Did I not see you, a few
moments ago, in the Southsea ball-room?’ And the only reply he got was,
‘How could that be, sir, as I am now here in command of my guard?’
So the older wise one departed, and the younger retired to his
guard-room to smoke and dream. But the affair was not over. Next
morning the A.D.C. arrived at our subaltern quarters, requesting his
attendance at Lord ----’s house, and our friend went at once. The
general, I have always been told, was very kind-hearted. He received
the young officer most courteously, and then said,
‘Mr. ----, the guard you were on is a thing of the past. We meet now
as friends. I want to know how the mischief you ever managed to get to
your guard, for I am positive I saw you in the ball-room.’
On receiving the reply: ‘Behind your lordship’s carriage!’ it may be
imagined how the general laughed, and, no doubt, was of opinion that
the young officer had shown a great deal of cleverness in getting out
of what might have been a serious scrape.
This escapade recalls to my memory a story I heard given by a most
amusing _raconteur_ in Scotland. The colonel of a regiment
quartered in Edinburgh Castle had been much annoyed at the number of
men who not only were brought up to the orderly-room for drunkenness,
but also for absence without leave, so he was determined to make an
example of some one on the first opportunity. One morning the regiment
was on parade, and a private soldier appeared with his coat all muddy
and his cap in a battered condition, quite sober, but evidently having
been engaged in a row, and ‘absent all night.’ Here was a ‘horrid
example.’ So the colonel ordered a corporal’s guard to make the man a
prisoner, and, forming the regiment in line, he marched the culprit in
front, so that every soldier might see him. On arriving at the left
flank of the line the prisoner saluted, and said, ‘Thank you, colonel;
it is one of the finest regiments I ever saw. You may dismiss them,’
which rather altered the colonel’s intentions with regard to this
‘horrid example!’
I would like to command a regiment formed of officers like the
Portsmouth subaltern and men like the Edinburgh private, although
neither of them, I daresay, knew anything about Spenser’s ‘Faerie
Queen,’ a knowledge of which is required at examinations for
commissions in the army of the present day.
But I must finish now. At Portsmouth I said farewell to my dear old
home in which I had passed all the years of my soldiering life, and now
again I say God speed to you, old 88th; luckier than most time-honoured
corps, you are Connaught Rangers still, but full of by-gone memories
are the numbers 88, the sound of which has echoed in peace and war, at
home and abroad.
THE END.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] A mussack is the entire skin of a sheep or goat. In India our
bhiesties (water-carriers) bring water from the wells in no other way.
Bowed down under the weight of a huge mussack full of water, a man has
the appearance of carrying a living animal.
[2] Treaty between the British Government on the one part, and
Maharajah Golab Sing of Jummoo on the other, concluded on the part of
the British Government by Frederick Currie, Esq., and Brevet-Major
Henry Montgomery Lawrence, acting under the orders of the Right Hon.
Sir Henry Hardinge, G.C.B., one of Her Britannic Majesty’s Honourable
Privy Council, Governor-General, appointed by the Honourable Company
to direct and control all their affairs in the East Indies; and by
Maharajah Golab Sing in person:--
ARTICLE 1.--The British Government transfers and makes over
for ever, in independent possession, to Maharajah Golab Sing, and the
heirs male of his body, all the hilly or mountainous country, with
its dependencies, situated on the east-ward of the river Indus, and
westward of the river Rávee, including Chumba, and excluding Lahoul,
being part of the territory ceded to the British Government by the
Lahore State according to the provisions of Article 4 of the Treaty of
Lahore, dated 9th March, 1846.
ARTICLE 2.--The eastern boundary of the tract transferred by
the foregoing article to Maharajah Golab Sing, shall be laid down by
Commissioners appointed by the British Government and Maharajah Golab
Sing respectively for that purpose, and shall be defined in a separate
engagement after survey.
ARTICLE 3.--In consideration of the transfer made to him and
his heirs by the provisions of the foregoing articles, Maharajah Golab
Sing will pay to the British Government the sum of seventy-five lacs
of rupees (Náruksháhee); fifty lacs on completion of this Treaty, and
twenty-five lacs on or before the 1st of October of the current year,
A.D. 1846.
ARTICLE 4.--The limits of the territories of Maharajah Golab
Sing shall not be at any time changed without the concurrence of the
British Government.
ARTICLE 5.--Maharajah Golab Sing will refer to the arbitration
of the British Government any disputes or questions that may arise
between himself and the Government of Lahore or any other neighbouring
state, and will abide by the decision of the British Government.
ARTICLE 6.--Maharajah Golab Sing engages for himself and his
heirs to join, with the whole of his military force, the British troops
when employed within the hills, or in the territories adjoining his
possessions.
ARTICLE 7.--Maharajah Golab Sing engages never to take, or retain, in
his service any British subject, nor the subject of any European or
American State, without the consent of the British Government.
ARTICLE 8.--Maharajah Golab Sing engages to respect, in regard
to the territory transferred to him, the provisions of Articles 5, 6,
and 7 of the separate engagement between the British Government and the
Lahore Durbar, dated 11th of March, 1846.
ARTICLE 9.--The British Government will give its aid to Maharajah Golab
Sing in protecting his territories from external enemies.
ARTICLE 10.--Maharajah Golab Sing acknowledges the supremacy
of the British Government, and will, in token of such supremacy,
present annually to the British Government one horse, twelve perfect
shawl-goats of approved breed (six males and six females), and three
pairs of Cashmere shawls.
Then come the signatures, &c., and date, 16th of March, 1846.
[3] ‘Lalla Rookh.’
[4] ‘Lalla Rookh’.
[5] ‘Light of the Harem’--‘Lalla Rookh’
[6] ‘Lalla Rookh.’
[7] ‘Lalla Rookh.’
Transcriber’s Notes:
1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been
corrected silently.
2. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as in the
original.
3. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have
been retained as in the original.
4. Italics are shown as _xxx_.
5. New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the
public domain.