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Title: "Round the world." : Letters from Japan, China, India, and Egypt
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Fogg, Wm. Perry (William Perry), b. 1826
Subjects: Voyages around the world
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n fact stipen-diaries, supported by the allowances madeto them by their English masters. Jeal-ousy between Mohamedana and Hindooscreated a division in their counsels, andmade the suppression of the rebellion com-paratively easy. But it was a narrow escape, and the En-glish learned a lesson, costing them dearlyin blood and treasure, which resulted in amore humane and less oppressive system ofgovernment, under which the country isnow more prosperous than ever before. The rebellion broke out in the spring,and during the awfully hot summer that fol-lowed it was very difficult for the Englishsoldiers, sent out to India from home, to re-lieve the few isolated forts that held outagainst the insurgents, in which werecrowded all the English residents withtheir wives and children. The whole coun-try from Delhi to Calcutta, more thantwelve hundred miles in extent, was in thehands of the rebels; and in Delhi, the an-cient capital, a descendant of the Mogulswas proclaimed Emperor of India. Here in
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159 Cawnpore a large army of Sepoys, com-manded by Nana Sahib, besieged the hand-ful of British troops and half caste residents,and forced them at last to surrender, withthe promise of being permitted to embarkon the river. But before they could leavethe shore fire was opened upon them, andonly two escaped alive. In another part ofthe town, where several hundred invalidsoldiers and women and children were col-lected, all were slaughtered, and theirbodies, yet warm, thrown into an old well. My first visit in Cawnpoie was to thisspot, where now on a raised mound is abeautiful memorial, erected over the wtl.It consists cf a high stone platform, onwhich stands a marble statue of a femalewith wings, designed by Baron Marochetti.This is surrounded by a stone gothic screenof beautiful design and workmanship. Nearby are the tombs of those who fell at Cawn-pore during the mutiny. There are manynameless, grass-grown mounds, amongwhich are shrubs and flowers. The keeperof the place pointed out s

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