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The Cameron Hio/iiandcrs. 45
the evening, when lying asleep and pretty well beat, he was
roused to go on outlying picquet in command, and had to
go, it being decided by Captain Currie, to whom the question
was referred, that a guard and a picquet were on different
rosters. Poor fellow, he had not long been off the sick-list
no wonder that, on the picquets being withdrawn, during the
march of the regiment from its bivouac towards camp next
morning, he fell dead asleep under a tree during a short
halt. No one noticed him, and when he awoke he found
himself alone, but made his wa}' into camp and found
Captain Macdonald with his tent pitched, and wondering
what had become of him.
Page 60 of book (p. 156 of magazine;.—During the
early part of the day the 79th hastily formed line to the
right, rear rank in front, to meet an expected attack. After
being exposed for some time to artillery fire, they were
countermarched when opportunit}' offered, on the rebels
being forced to retire.
I conclude that the afternoon of this day, i ith May, on
which wc relieved Shahjehanporc, was one of the occasions
on which a fierce attack was made by bees upon the
regiment while halted in a tope, in consequence of their
being disturbed by sticks or stones thrown at their nests.
Captain Holford and Mr Kerr both connect the incident
with this day, and with the 60th Rifles being attacked at
the same time, and they are confirmed by Sir Cromer
Ashburnham and Colonel Kelly, then officers in that
regiment.
Such attacks by infuriated bees occurred on several
occasions during the Indian Mutiny Campaign. One
instance has been given where No. 6 Company was attacked
in Lucknow. The late Dr Brougham, then surgeon
1st Bengal Fusiliers, several times asked me if I remembered
such an occurrence, and, as I recalled only one, I assumed
that it must have taken place when his regiment was with
us, i.e., before the final capture of Lucknow. My own
impression of the date, however, is that it was about the
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