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fowl." Mr. Cooper started out to capture them. He had with him an aged Sikh chief, and he explained to the Sikh that he proposed to capture the fugitives "after the model of the fox,

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the geese, and the peck of oats." When Mr. Cooper explained this fable to the Sikh and the other chiefs, it "caused intense mirth," and we can imagine the high spirits with which the party set about the enterprise. The doomed men with joined

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palms, the Hindoo attitude of entreaty, crowded into the boats and were brought on shore. "In utter despair forty or fifty dashed into the stream and disappeared." No order was given to fire, and the fugitives, says Mr. Cooper in a spirit of playfulness, became possessed of a "sudden and insane idea that they were going to be tried by a court-martial after some luxurious refreshment." So they So they were brought on shore, one by one, tightly bound, their decorations and necklaces ignominiously cut off. "Some begged that their women and children might be spared, and were informed that the British government did not condescend to war with women and children." They were marched to the town, "the gracious moon," Mr. Cooper informing us, coming out through the clouds, and reflecting herself in myriad pools and streams to "light the prisoners to their fate.'

They arrived at midnight. Next morning at daybreak Mr. Cooper took his seat. He had two hundred and eighty-two prisoners, besides numbers of camp followers. He sent his Mohammedan troops, fearing they might hesitate to shoot Mohammedans, to a religious festival, and alone with his "faithful Sikhs" proceeded to do justice. "Ten by ten," says Mr. Cooper, "the Sepoys were called forth. Their names having been taken down in succession, they were pinioned, linked together, and marched to execution, a firing party being in readiness. Every phase of deportment," says Mr. Cooper, in a critical, observant spirit, "was manifested by the doomed men, after the sullen firing of volleys of distant musketry forced the conviction of inevitable death-astonishment, rage, frantic despair, the most stoic calmness." One detachment as they passed yelled to the solitary Anglo-Saxon magistrate (Mr. Cooper himself), as he sat under the shade of the police station performing his solemn duty with his native officials around him, that he, the Christian, would meet the same fate. Then as they passed the reserve of young Sikh soldiery who were to relieve the executioners after a certain period, they danced, though pinioned, insulted the Sikh religion, and called on Gungajee to aid them; but they only in one instance provoked a reply, which was in

stantaneously checked. Others again petitioned to be allowed to make one last salam to the Sahib. About one hundred and fifty having been thus executed, one of the executioners swooned away (he was the oldest of the firing party) and a little rest was allowed. Then proceeding, the number had arrived at two hundred and thirty-seven, when the district officer was informed that the remainder refused to come out of the bastion, where they had been imprisoned temporarily a few hours before. Expecting a mob and resistance, preparations were made against escape, but little expectation was entertained of the real and awful fate which had fallen on the remainder of the mutineers. They had anticipated by a few short hours their doom. The doors were opened, and behold, they were nearly all dead. Unconsciously the tragedy of the Black Hole had been re-enacted. No cries had been heard during the night in consequence of the hubbub, tumult, and shouting of horsemen, police tehseel guards, and excited villagers. Forty-five bodies dead from fright, exhaustion, fatigue, heat, and partial suffocation were dragged into light and consigned, in common with all the other bodies, into one common pit by the hands of village sweepers. One Sepoy was too much wounded to be shot, and was sent to Lahore, along with forty-one subsequent captives, where they were all blown from cannon. The assembled natives, says Mr. Cooper, expected to see the women and children thrown into the pit, and because this was not done "marveled at the clemency and the justice of the British.'

The men who acted as executioners were Sikhs, barbarians filled with a traditional hatred of the men they slew. The man who ordered the execution was the agent of a company of London merchants, who held India for revenue. Mr. Cooper's superiors approved his acts. Sir John Lawrence informed him that he had acted with energy and spirit, and deserved well of the state. The judicial commissioner was more enthusiastic. "My dear Cooper. It will be a feather in your cap as long as you live." "You will have abundant money to reward all, and the (executioners) Sikhs should have a good round sum given to them." "You have had slaughter enough. We want

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e troops here (to be blown from cannon), and also "The other three regiments here were very rday, but I hardly think they will now go. I wish as they are a nuisance, and not a man will escape The spirit in which the mutiny was suppressed erstood from this letter of a judge who was impais prisoners because they would not run away, and e luxury of a hunt in the jungle and a grand battue Mr. Cooper in Umritsir.

se of the mutiny was the fall of the company. Pubarose against a system which had brought so much pon the English name and which culminated in a terrible. With the close of the mutiny the whole of the English administration changed. The comissolved, and India passed under the direct control

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T was late in the evening when we arrived in Benares. The day had been warm and enervating, and our journey was through a country lacking in interest. Long, low, rolling plains, monotonous and brown, were all that we could see from the car windows. At the various railway stations where we stopped guards of honor were in attendance, native troops in their white parade costumes and officers in scarlet, who came to pay their respects to the General. The Viceroy has telegraphed that he will delay his departure from Calcutta to the hills to enable himself to meet General Grant. In return for this courtesy the General has appointed to be in Calcutta earlier than he expected. He has cut off Cawnpore, Lahore, Simla, and other points in Northern India which had been in his programme. Then the weather is so warm that we must hurry our journey so as to be out of the

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