Front matter
LIEE IN THE MISSION, THE CAMP, AND THE ZENANA from a. .S(cet.*>il-yMT-" G5?-P.-Li*n-iii*w« A SIKH WITH H]f PROVISIONS, AMMUNITION, MDBEDD1N&,MAKCHIN<j 10 JOI1V CKATTAR SINO lœnl.-m RicKariBeJitLey Kew-Burliii^toni7lx«e LIFE IN THE MISSION, THE CAMP. i AND THE ZENANA; OR, SIX YEABS IN INDIA. MRS. COLIN MACKENZIE. SECOND EDITION, REVISED. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, |)nblisbtr in ©rbinarg to fur gl ajestg. 1854. [The Author reserves to herself the right of translation.] . BIKTED BY HAKBISON AKD SOWS, LONDON GAZETTE O.riCE, ST. HAHTlN's LAME. CONTENTS OF VOLUME THE SECOND.
Chapter I
Page Painda Khan — Reconnaissance — Siege of Multan — General Wliish — Repulse on 9th — Wounded, abandoned — Success on the 12th of September — Want of Artillery Officers — A Royal Salute — Shu- Sing joins Mulraj — Lieutenant Edwardes — The Siege raised — General Ventura's Criticism — No Co-operation — Distance of First Parallel — Sepahis won't work — Letter from Major G. Lawrence — Scarcity — Note from Major Lawrence — Govindghar seized — Prince Shahpur's Children — Shop — Poor Mussalman and his Wife — Loss of Life at Sea — Lieutenant Lake's Stratagem— 50th Lines too strong — Sepahis Children — Precedence — A Thug — Mrs. G. Lawrence — Economy in Sind — Lord Gough . 1
Chapter II
Augmentation of Army — Ball Practice — Taking a Fort — Glengarry Bonnets — English Vultures — Orders and Counter-orders — An Oppressed Choukedar — Sawar's Opinions — Shameful Confiscations — Sir R. Shakespeare and Lieutenant Edwardes — Hot Coffee — Infant Hercules — Bonnets and the Granthi — The Commander-in-Chief's Camp — Allopathy — Discipline of Regiment — Fifty Lashes — Fall of Peshawur — Brigadier Cureton thwarted — Multan — Mulraj's Terms — Ambush at Ramnagar — " Oranges and Lemons" — Story of an Armenian Girl — General Ventura — Affairs at Lahore — General ThackwelTs Action — Night Alarm CONTENTS. Pago — Breaking Jail — Dragoons — Account of Thackwell's Action — Advantage Lost — Christian Soldiers — Capture of Major and Mrs. Lawrence — Peshawur — Treasure Party of Three Sepahis — General Cureton's Death — Presentation of Colours — Governor-General's Entry — Mr. J. Lawrence — Major * * at Budi Pind — Persian Politeness — Critique on our way of eating — German Missionaries — Second Siege of Multan — New Year's Day — Panic of 4th Bombay Rifles — Town Taken. . 25
Chapter III
Removal of Camp — Battle of Chillianwala — Retreat of 14th Dragoons — Dawes and Lane — Lord Gough — Bivouac — Dreadful Loss — Sikh Horsemen — Further Accounts — Fall of Attok — Killed and Wounded— Night on the Battle Field— Awful Plight — Alarm of the Camp — Prayer Meetings in the Camp— Caste among Christians — " Threes About" — Chattar Sing's Opinion of us — Mulraj — Battle of Gujrat — Shir Sing — Rout of the Sikhs — The 14th Dragoons — Colonel Pope. — Afghans and Hindustani — Chillianwala — Attack on Amriala — Burning Village — Orders to give no Quarter — Camp at Firozpur — Position of the Army — Recovery of Prisoners — Rohtas — The 30th Native Infantry — Sikhs Surrender — Sultan Muhammad — Attack on Lieutenant Bowie — Treatment of Mrs. Lawrence — Mrs. Lawrence rejoins her Husband — Terms offered — Wail for the Dead — Funeral — Superstition ....... 63
Chapter IV
Journey to Simla — Morinda — Kassauli — 'Harripore — Jhappans — Longwood — Music— Robert Hall — Painted Window — Freemasonry — Plundering Pilgrims — Prisoners at Multan — A Major and a Guru — Commissariat — Parable of the Cow — Lord Gough Mahasu — Forests — Portrait — Votive Offerings — Planks — A Chaprasi — View of the Hills — Lieutenant Herbert at Attok — The Duke — No Durbars — The Lawrences — A Plan — Facts anent Ferozshahar — Miani — Fall of the Year — Jungle on Fire — Simla Twenty -three Years ago — Hira — Rudeness of " Indian Ladies " — Mr. Rudolph — Sir Charles Napier— Hill Schools — The Chief — Reyneckder Fuchs — Eagle — A Vigorous General Order — Defence of Attok — Gratitude of Sikhs — Moonlight Scene — Storm coming on — Annexation — Apes . 101
Chapter V
The Brevet — Malversation of Honours — lemadar of Ayahs — Soldier of Chattar Sing — Mist — Precipice — Simla Children — Ride to CONTENTS. V Page Sabathu — Flowers — Kasauli — Mr. Rudolph's Death and Charac ter — Picnic — Temple — Kulis — RemarkableDream — Gambling — Bears — Sir Charles Napier — A Deaf-and-Dumb Man — Appoint ment — Old Monk — The Commander-in-Chief— The Water System — Hattu — Kotghar Mission — A Bear — Asgar — Lawrence Asylum — Loodiana — Religion in Prussia — The Afghan Princes — Oyle of Whelps — Departure . . . . . . 127
Chapter VI
Journey to Labor — Ministerial Offices — Soldier's worship— A Murderer — Soldier's Garden — Treasury — Koh-i-Nur — Dhalip Sing — Dangerous Old Women — Jehangiris Tomb — Darbar Ranjit — Sing's Cenotaph — Relics of Muhammad — ShaUmar Gardens — Sikh Widow — Investiture of the Bath — Sketch of Panjab Revolutions — Chattar Sing — Shir-Sing— Amritser — Gold Temple — Akalis — Shawl Weaving — Gigantic Orderly — A Subadar — Durbar Tents — Peep into the Zenana — Farewall Parade — Dr. Duff — Parting ....... 158
Chapter VII
Aunt of Shah Shujah — Great Canal — Cold — Delhi — Visit to the Royal Zenana — Political Report on the Subject — Kutab — Environs of Delhi — King's Revenue — Well — Hummayun's Tomb — Selim Ghar — Government Vandalism — Alighar — Agra — Atta Mahamud — Decay of Muhammadism — The Town — The Jail — Monuments Destroyed — Fattihpur Sikri — Mosaic Work — Hindu Dwelling — Indian Rothschilds — Dak Book — Superstition — Journey — Bearers — Pilgrims — Bengalis — Surrender of Ghazni — Crossing the Son — Address to Oxen — Palm Trees — Roads — Board of Control — 22nd Madras Native Infantry on march — Dag Dagghi — Baricon — Calcutta—Old Mission Church — Slave Girls — Mission School — Baptism — Behari Lai — Mussalman Convert — Concert — Dear Old Lady — Difficulties of Embarkation 181
Chapter VIII
Difficulties of Embarkation — The Sulimani — ■ Reverses of Fortune — Crew — Colombo — Coffee Store — Sea Serpent — Parsi Customs — Khalasis — Bombay Harbour— Energetic Parsis — Bombay People — Governor Duncan — Mesmerism — Female Schools — Moveable Bungalows — Parsi and Brahman Converts — Hungarian Cause — Archduchess Joseph — Narayan Shi-Shadri — Towers of Silence — Female School — Use of Pen — Jewish Ladies — Rev. H. Pestonji Parsi Family — Elephanta — Zoroasterism — Want of Phankahs VI CONTENTS. Page — Salsette — Murder of Dr. Healey — Romish Baptism — American and German Missionaries — Maina's Story — Vincent and Balu — Boys from Bagdad — Converted Faqir — Baptismal Service — Khandala Ghat — Puna — Mission School — Nagar Converts — Chaplains — Ahmednagar — Fort — History of the Dekhan — Ame rican Mission Schools — French Mission Schools — Singing 212
Chapter IX
Tokah — Aurangabad — Tomb — March — Ajanta — Sikhs — Outbreak — Use of Contingent — Sack of Malkapur — Jhalgan-Linewallah's — Heat — Bowan Bir — Murder of Major Davis — Akot — Elichpur — Scenery — WTrestling with a Panther — Tiger up a Tree — Gawalghar — Chikaldara — Lovely Rides — Scorpions — Civil War — Rains — Loss of the " Sulimani " — Memoirs of a Hungarian Lady — Rolling Stones — Memoirs of a Banker — Wrestling — The Fort — Tiny Wrestler — Aga Muhammad Khan — Manliness of Afghans — Vulgarity of the Press — Debt — Two boons needed — Unvisitable Women — Character and Talent of the Military and Civilians — Indian Ladies — Their Vocabulary — Precedence — Domestic Happiness — Elichpur Fever — Prisoners — A Murder — Chikaldara — Acuteness of Police 249
Chapter X
My Husband's Illness — Warburg's Tincture — Jaffirabad — Votive Offerings — Stocks and Stones — Dawn — Want of Cultivation — Nagar Converts — Mammoth — Winnowing Corn — Country — Traveller for pleasure — Umrah's Illness — Apathy — Sawars — "Walled villages — " It is Six " — Ahmednagar — American Mission — Boarding and Orphan Schools — Promising District — Native Church — Female Missionaries, their Activity and Zeal — Temperance — Access to Native Women — Serur — Priesthood — Idols — Musalmani Women — Afghan Princes — Akbar Khan — Kazzilbashis — Kashmiris — Battle of Korigain — Puna — Class for Young Men — Converts — Soldiers' Meetings — Temperance — Female Schools — Enghsh School— Parbati's Temple — Idol Worship — Khandoba — Parsi Garden — Discourtesy — Ordinations — Boarding School — Karla Caves ..... 274
Chapter XI
Khandala — Landingat Bombay — Karim's view of Bombay — Free Kirk Institution — Native Opinions on Europeans — Government Schools — Christianity — Different Papers — Results of Missionary Teaching — State of Educated Youths — Respect for Converts — Parsis CONTENTS. VII Page — Hormazdji's Conversion — Nestorian Mission — Scotch and American System — Liberality of Missionaries — Effect of Preach ing — Abyssinia — American Board of Missions — Accomplished Missionaries — Female Boarding School — Mullah Ibraham — Tents — Varied Population — Battiahs — Venus — Beluchis — Arabs — Drawing Ben-i-Israel — Inquirers — Want of Scholarships — Course of Education ....... 303
Chapter XII
Church of England Mission — Girl's School — Money School — Baptism — Mr. Bowen — Boxwalas — Funeral Piles — Hormazdji — Bedouin Arab — Oriental Countenances — Arab Synagogue — Jewish Ladies — The Communion — Inquirers — Bombay Jars — Costume — Parsi Lady — Majnun and Leila — Voyage to Panwell — Christian Sepahis — Serur — Ahmednagar — Nestorian Mission — Cure for Toothache — Cavalry Review — Killing the Wounded — Tiger Hunt — Doulatabad — Grapes — Tombs — Caves at Elora — Buddhism and Monasticism— Three Weddings — Latyur d'Anvergne — Caste is losing ground — Secret Societies — Hook-worship — Camp — Poor Travellers — Wild Boar — Tiger — Wind — Papering Room — Gond Burial — A Poor Mother — The Gonds — Language — Marriages — Depopulation of Hills — Deposition of their Rajahs — Oppression — A Nurse brought to order . . 334
Chapter XIII
Two Multan Merchants — Oppressian — A Mad Tree — Hira and the Tailor — Aristocratic Potatoes — Flyting — History of Joseph — A Thank-offering — Cobweb Pills — Caves — Nagpur Converts — Opposition to Missions — Idolatrous Compliances — Nagpur Missionaries Colporteur arrested — Oaths Abolished — Waterfall — Gallant Defence by a Rajput — Frightful State of the Country — The Thuggi Establishment — Robbers Protected — Akham — Jungle on Fire — The 4th Sikhs volunteer — Their March — Baptism of a Sepahi — Contributions to Popery — Watching for a Tiger — Night Scene— A Bear— Orderly killed by Tiger — Tiger Worship — March — District Authorities — Horsemanship — Camp at Night — Sabbath — Uncanny Fish — A Tiger — Child Stolen A PAHARI ob HILL WOMAN or SIMLA Loi*L(ilo7iBiakaTiBentlej, Ne-^BixrlmgtojL Street LIFE IN THE MISSION, THE CAMP, AND THE ZENANA.
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