ound, which nothing could induce him to leave, such
was his opinion of the nature and responsibility of his post. The man
added, that he once gave him to an officer of the Company's service, who
took him from the station where he was (Meerut) to Loodiana, a distance
of four hundred miles, and that, the moment the officer let him loose,
he returned to his old master, having performed that great distance in
two days and a half; that he was on the main-guard the night he
returned, and he was awoke by the dog licking his face. It appeared that
he had been through the barrack, and visited every sleeping soldier on
their separate cots, until he found his master. The man related several
anecdotes of this animal: among the rest, he said he was one day out
drinking toddy, some miles from camp, and from the intoxicating effect,
and the extreme heat of the weather, he went to sleep. On awaking, he
found his clothes torn in several places, and that he had been dragged
more than three yards from the bush under which he had lain down; but
what was his astonishment, on getting up, to find a large snake almost
torn to pieces, no doubt by his faithful guard! He was a powerful dog--a
kind of Persian hill greyhound--that would kill a wolf single-handed.

On the following day we opened our batteries on some stockades on the
face of the hill intervening between us and the fort of Muckwanpore. The
first stockade that we proposed to dislodge, was one about eight hundred
or a thousand yards from our battery. We could not approach nearer than
this, as a deep and enormous declivity lay between us. This being the
case, we were under the necessity of commencing at this great distance.
The stockade seemed alive with men. There was also a tent pitched in it,
with several colours flying, in token of defiance. Some dozen shells,
which were beautifully thrown into this stockade, put some of them to
double-quick; the tent soon disappeared, as well as the colours, and
most of the men, save now and then one or two taking a sly peep to see
what we were about. The eighteen and twenty-four pound balls, however, I
am convinced never had power to penetrate that little edifice of art. It
was evidently built of green bamboos. These, when green, are very
elastic, and, being interwoven, as this stockade seemed to be, there is
no question that, at the distance from which we fired, they would resist
the power of our balls. We frequently saw men running and picking up