[46] Now spelt Popos.
[47] The Yorubas are a warlike Mohammedan tribe living in and around Lagos. The Houssa Constabulary is largely recruited from them.
[48] This is the manner in which West African savages usually fire, and it is dictated by motives of sound prudence, for the Birmingham muskets with which they are supplied by British traders are so unsafe (the barrel not uncommonly being made of old iron piping), and the charges of powder used are so immense, that the bursting of a piece is looked upon as an ordinary occurrence; and when firing they like to keep their muskets as far removed from their bodies as possible. The majority of the mutineers fired in this manner, because, having been less than three weeks in the regiment, they had not yet been drilled with arms.
[49] All young ensigns just arrived from England to join the regiment.
[50] Sergeant-Major D. Cantrell. He had been the first to give the alarm.
[51] Eleven miles distant from San Josef.
[52] Torrens was sentenced to death, but, at the intercession of Colonel Bush, the sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life.
[53] The firing party was furnished by the 1st West India Regiment.