[8] Doctor Cotton, later Bishop of Calcutta, who came in 1852, reformed the College, which for many years has been, and is now, one of the best in the kingdom.
[9] He was killed at my side in the 21-gun battery before Sevastopol, 19th October 1854.
[10] This place was, and is now reserved for Naval and Military Officers, being close under Government House, while Mutton Cove is the landing-place for private boats and men-of-war’s liberty men.
[11] Men when suffering corporal punishment were lashed to gratings.
[12] Burgoyne was drowned, with all but eighteen of his command, in 1871, in the Bay of Biscay, when H.M.S. Captain, struck by a squall, “turned turtle,” being overweighted above her water-line. Eurydice capsized, 1878; H.M.S. Atalanta disappeared, 1880.
[13] Probably a record depth.
[14] Van Amberg, in the forties a celebrated wild-beast tamer, dominated them by breaking their rest.
[15] In my log, 12.8.54, I read: “H.M.S. Trafalgar stood under our stern last night, and asked for medical assistance.”
[16] I read in my Diary that in seven successive days later I spent four on duty in the batteries or elsewhere, and three at Balaklava and Kamiesh.
[17] He commanded the Artillery at Aldershot in 1892.