I nodded.

"'_Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Stanhope, C.B., and

105 Officers and Men of Her Majesty's 2-th Regiment of Foot, lost in the

wreck of the Nerbuddha, East Indiaman, on Menawhidden, January 15th,

1857. . . ._' Then follows a list of the officers. Underneath, if you

remember, is a separate slab to the officers and crew of the

_Nerbuddha_, who behaved admirably, all the senior officers keeping

order to the last and going down with the ship."

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