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2 and on we went. Many were the stoppages and
3 much demur at the last outpost, five miles from
4 their camp, but my friend satisfied them all.
5 Merrily we trudged the ten miles to Moodkee, and
6 the reception I met from all was grateful indeed,
7 and never to be forgotten. My companion received
8 from the Governor-general 1000 rupees, and offers
9 of service if he chose to stay with us; but he re-
10 turned, however, after the battles, to his own people
11 or home. The 21st and 22nd saw the Sikhs routed
12 after a desperate resistance, but the Governor-
13 general would not allow me to mingle in the fray,
14 as he said I owed chat at least to the enemy who
15 released me, although I refused to give any pledge
16 not to fight.”
17 At a later period of the campaign, a medical
18 officer was carried prisoner to Lahore, along with
19 several European soldiers who were taken when
20 Sir Harry Smith’s baggage was attacked at Bud-
21 deewal, near Loodianah ; they were all restored to
22 their freedom, and sent to the British camp by
23 Goolab Singh after the army had crossed the Sut-
24 lej. They were tolerably well treated, while prison-
25 ers; but had they fallen into the hands of the van-
26 quished Sikhs after the battle of Alleewal, their fate
27 might have been different. The release and escape
28 of Lieutenant Biddulph was a most providential
29 one, and well might the fate of poor Loveday pre-
30 sent itself to his mind. He appears to have owed
31 his safety to the generous feelings of the artillery-
32 men, who afterwards peoke themselves the bravest
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34 Treatment of
35 European pri~
36 soners by the
37 ikhs.