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NARRATIVE DURING A TOUR
stockade, a heavy tire was opened on us from
the hilts, on the left of the road, which the
enemy had fortified. Their larger guns were
fired from the further hill, and the smaller
ones from the lower, thereby completely com-
manding the road. The Naik who in the first
instance brought intelligence of their approach,
apprized me that we were very near the plain
on which their stockade was situated. I con-
sequently pushed on with the detachment of the
23d N. 1. and reached the plain. 1 then re-
turned with a few men to bring on the guns,
directing Ensign Campbell to follow, should I
not join him in a short time. To my disap-
pointment I found that the elephants had
thrown their loads and blocked up the road.
To extricate the gun and gear we were
obliged to cut the ropes, but from the inex-
perience of Lieut. Scott, who had never before
seen guns carried on elephants, and none of
the Golundauze being present, after many trials,
and failing in all, I was obliged to leave it, and
take steps for carrying away the ammunition,
which the other elephant had thrown off, and
also that which had been left on the road by
some coolies who had run off. I had previous
to this been joined by Ensign Campbell. We
with difficulty succeeded in getting it away,
chiefly by the exertions of the sepoys, the
NARRATIVE DURING A TOUR
stockade, a heavy tire was opened on us from
the hilts, on the left of the road, which the
enemy had fortified. Their larger guns were
fired from the further hill, and the smaller
ones from the lower, thereby completely com-
manding the road. The Naik who in the first
instance brought intelligence of their approach,
apprized me that we were very near the plain
on which their stockade was situated. I con-
sequently pushed on with the detachment of the
23d N. 1. and reached the plain. 1 then re-
turned with a few men to bring on the guns,
directing Ensign Campbell to follow, should I
not join him in a short time. To my disap-
pointment I found that the elephants had
thrown their loads and blocked up the road.
To extricate the gun and gear we were
obliged to cut the ropes, but from the inex-
perience of Lieut. Scott, who had never before
seen guns carried on elephants, and none of
the Golundauze being present, after many trials,
and failing in all, I was obliged to leave it, and
take steps for carrying away the ammunition,
which the other elephant had thrown off, and
also that which had been left on the road by
some coolies who had run off. I had previous
to this been joined by Ensign Campbell. We
with difficulty succeeded in getting it away,
chiefly by the exertions of the sepoys, the