1 344 A MUTINY OF
2 the people were soon convinced of their de-
3 ception. |
4 Before leaving our last ground, I omitted to
5 mention a mutiny which broke out in the
6 Najib corps.* They ejected their commandant,
7 * «A mutiny occurred in the Najib regiment, which
8 but too plainly showed how slight was the discipline
9 that existed among the Sikhs, and very forcibly exhibited
10 to us the qualities of the allies who are to co-operate with
11 us when redhiired. I have already alluded to the little autho-
12 rity possessed by Colonel Jacob over his men. They had
13 now become altogether dissatisfied with him, and taking the
14 law into their own hands, had turned him and his adjutant
15 out of their camp, levelled their tents with the ground,
16 and declared they would have nothing more to do with
17 either of them. Asa mark of respect for their Colonel
18 they inverted his chair on the spot where he asually sat,
19 “and then, having shotted their guns, quietly awaited the
20 results of their misconduct. Dislike to the officers they
21 had thus summarily got rid of, want of pay, and the unfair
22 manner in which they had been sent to Peshawr (their
23 present appearance in this province being the third within
24 _a very short period), were amongst the alleged causes of
25 grievance; but, to show they had no ill-will towards us,
26 they planted their sentries as usual at sunset; and when
27 directed to parade by Colonel Wade did so at once. He,
28 however, told them they could no longer form a part of
29 his camp; and in a few days they removed from their
30 grouna, I believe, to- the Sikh cantonment.”—Barr’s
31 Journal, pp. 270, 271.