 Sacred to the perpetual memory of a great company of Christian people, chiefly women and children, who near this spot were cruelly murdered by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhundu Panth of Bithur, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below,...  East by West: A Journey in the Recess - Page 176by Sir Henry William Lucy - 1885Full view - About this book
 | Harriet Georgiana Maria Murray Aynsley - 1879 - 392 pages
...cruelly massacred by the folITS TRAGIC MEMORIES. 315 lowers of the rebel Nana Dhoodopunt of Bithoor, and cast — the dying with the dead — into the well below, on the 15th day of July 1857." The whole is surrounded by a high railing, within which no native is allowed to... | |
 | W. J. Shepherd - 1879 - 306 pages
...who near this spot were cruelly massacred by the followers of the Rebel Nana Dhoondopunt, of Bithoor, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the Well below on the 15th day of July, MDCCCLVII." A beautiful " Memorial Church" now stands on the site of the beleaguered barracks... | |
 | William Corry (traveller.) - 1879 - 304 pages
...who near this spot were cruelly massacred by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhoondapunt, of Bithoor, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the XVth day of July, MDCCCLVII." Close by are two small graveyards, containing many graves, nearly all... | |
 | Anthony George Shiell - 1880 - 340 pages
...who near this spot were cruelly massacred by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhoondopunt of Bithoor, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the 15th day of July 1857." While I was there, the sun had begun to beat fiercely down, but the whole time I... | |
 | M. E. Corbet - 1880 - 312 pages
...near this spot were cruelly massacred by the followers of the Rebel, Nana Dhoondoo Punth, of Bithoor, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the 15th day of July 1857." No native is allowed within the marble enclosure of the Memorial Well. We returned... | |
 | James Hingston - 1880 - 572 pages
...in a quarrel with a native, and massacred by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhoodopval, of Bithoor, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the isth July, 1857." It is said that this well contains many hundred bodies— calculated only by those... | |
 | Archibald Forbes - 1880 - 332 pages
...near this spot were cruelly massacred by the followers of the rebel Nana Doondoo Punth of Bithoor ; and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the I5th day of July, 1857." A few paces to the north-west of the monument is the spot where stood the... | |
 | Edward Warren Clark - 1880 - 380 pages
...WOMAl^ GOING FOR W ATER. spot were cruelly massacred by the rebel Nana Dhoondopunt of Bithoor, who cast the dying with the dead into the well below, on the 15th day of July, 1857." While in Calcutta the most sickening reminiscences of the mutiny were recounted... | |
 | William Urwick - 1881 - 252 pages
...who, near this spot, were cruelly massacred by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhoondopunt of Bithoor, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the fifteenth day of July, 1857." A memorial church stands a short distance off, round which are many tombs.... | |
 | Frank Vincent - 1882 - 322 pages
...women and children, who near this spot were cruelly massacred by the rebel Nana Dhoondpoot of Bithoor, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the fifteenth day of February, 1857." Over the door, on the inner side, one may read the following: "Erected... | |
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