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Excerpt from Havelock's March on Cawnpore, 1857: A Civilian's Notes
Bagh, an ancient. Tomb adapted to household purpoess, and standing in a walled. Garden. It was in this, walking with him and a colonel of native infantry, that the possibility of a mutiny first struck me. The subject of the cartridges - quite new to mere-was being dis cussed, and the colonel said if the materials for greasing them were such as suspected, and biting them was insisted upon, the Sepoys would certainly not obey orders. 5' And, he added, though John Sepoy seems such a quiet fellow in the lines, on such matters as his caste, his religion, or his women, if he gets Off his head, there is no violence 'or cruelty he would not commit. Thus was the seed sown in one's mind of much subsequent anxiety.
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