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2 with those which dragged after them such terrible
3 instruments of war. None of the Sikhs attended on
4 this occasion ; it would have been too humiliating a
5 sight for them; but on a subsequent day, after another re-
6 affairs were settled, the instalment paid, and the Sanaeieh
7 hostile guns delivered up, there was a similar re-
8 view of the whole troops for the young Maharajah
9 and the Sirdars who had now. returned to their
10 allegiance. In passing along the line, Sirdar Lal
11 Singh remarked the weakly state of the Ist
12 European light infantry, observing, that the regi-
13 ment must have suffered severely ; and truly so it
14 did, for in the two battles of Feerozshuhur and the great loss
15 Sobraon, two-thirds of the men at least were killed meat
16 and wounded ; and out of twenty-seven officers ‘st infantry.
17 who left Subathoo on the 11th of December, only
18 seven escaped the same fate.
19 Lal Singh wore a suit of armour, which he re-
20 marked was not adapted for modern warfare.
21 The escort of cavalry and infantry attached to Shabby ap-
22 the Maharajah formed a sad contrast to that which Rance of
23 used to accompany Runjeet Singh ; and it is pro-#H's esr
24 bable that neither these branches, nor the Sikh
25 artillery, will ever attain the discipline which dis-
26 tinguished the Aeen troops in the time of Runjeet
27 Singh, and even after his death, down to the dis-
28 astrous war with the British.
29 When gun after gun was being delivered up, the rhe sad plight
30 sight was too much for Sooltan Mahmood, the Sanne.
31 commandant of artillery. He shed tears of pity
32 and chacrin. deplorinse at the came time hie nwn