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OUR ANGLO-INDIAN ARMY.
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In addition to the superabundant multitude of attendants, for all the officers have followers in proportion to the captain, every Sepoy in the army is accompanied to the field by his whole family, be they ever so numerous, who live upon his pay and allowances of rice from the Company. The wife shares the hardships of war with her husband in the most cheerful manner, and follows him wherever he goes. Every trooper, besides his family,
