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whieh place we reached the same night at 9.30, after halting
Bl a . ' half way for about five hours. It rained tremendously
the first halt ot the journey, and we were drenched and dried
again alternately three or four times during the day We re
mained here two days, when it was expected that the rebels
were likely to cross the Gunduck higher up into Chumparum •
so away we went again on elephants and ekhahs for Mootee-
haree, fifty-two miles from Moozufferpore.* We halted at two
magnificent indigo factories, Mootepore and Barrah ; the latter
was a perfect palace, and the men were very well cared for by
the proprietors. The house was so large that though the men
were stowed away in half of it, they were scarcely visible We
remained here two days, and at length reached Mooteeharee, a
little place with only three or four Europeans, where we were
stationed for eight days. I drove out one day and visited
Segowlie, and the spot where poor Major Holmesf and his wife
were murdered, and the house where Dr. Garstin's wife and
child were burnt to death, the doctor and one child being out
side ; the infant was saved by the Ayah. From Mooteeharee we
marched to the banks of the Gunduck, and then by boat to
Patna, which we reached on Sunday the 18th of July. On the
26th we again left Patna for Gya, and arrived here on the 30th
I am sorry to say we have a great deal of sickness and many
fatal cases."
Lieutenant Duval's Detachment was now augmented to two
hundred men, with a complete field battery of six guns. Their
services being in constant requisition, they were frequently
broken up into small parties, and were continually on the move,
until the return of the Detachment to Calcutta, in July, 1859,
when Lieutenant Duval's health was so much affected by ex
posure that he was compelled to proceed home on sick leave.
When the stations of Moozufferpore and Mooteeharee were
denuded of all troops by the disarmament of the traitorous
Nujeeb Guards, a Bengal Marine Police Detachment was sent
irom Patna for their protection, but these a^ain were relieved
* Both^hese stations had been aband one d in obedience to the order of the
dlst ot 1857, of Mr. Tajler, the Commissioner of Patna, but the magistrates
m charge—Mr. E Lautour at Moozufferpore, and Mr. Eaikes at Mooteeharee—
soon returned of their o wn accord. It should be mentioned here, that the districts
constituting the Patna division, under the orders of Mr. Tayler, were Shahabad,
ratna, -Behar Sarun, Chumparum, and Tirhoot, and on the 30th of July, 1857,
da J P re ceding that on which the abandonment of certain stations had been
entire division miS810ner ' martial law had been proclaimed throughout the
t The murder of this officer at Segowlie, in Chumparum, by the 12th Irregular
cavalry, ot which he was m command, was one of the most barbarous during that
sanguinary period. Mrs. Holmes was the daughter of Sir Eobert Sale, and
1?. f ^ hu8ban 1 d ' Lleut enant Sturt, of the Bengal Engineers, fell during the
etreat Irom Cabul, under the melancholy circumstances familiar to those who
disastrous eveutf 16 8 tir0Urnal and Vincent Eyre's graphic record of those
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