1 376 EFFECT OF OUR SHELLS.
2 of the river, and opposite to a village, whose
3 inhabitants he previously had warned (in order
4 that the women and children might be sent
5 out of the way) would be attacked unless they
6 consented to acknowledge the Shah Zada.
7 As this cut was no gun road, I was obliged to
8 return by that we had come up, and which,
9 being in many places rather steep, compelled
10 us to have recourse to the drag-ropes, to pull
11 the ordnance over them. Whilst occupied at
12 one of these eminences, a few stray shots were
13 fired at us from the heights above, but did
14 no injury; and in half an hour I rejoined
15 Colonel Wade. It was now necessary that
16 the gun should be advanced with much pre-
17 caution, to conceal it from a party of horse-
18 men, located beneath a tree contiguous to the
19 village; and this having been satisfactorily
20 accomplished, the piece was laid and fired :
21 the shell falling in front of them, and bounding
22 onwards over their heads, exploded just beyond
23 their position. ‘Sauve qui peut! was their
24 ery, and away they scuttled to a place of safety
25 as fast as their legs could carry them. Another