[78] The calculations are given in sterling, but at that period the rupee was worth a penny more than its face value.
[79] Some weeks after assuming command, when presiding at a Native Court Martial, my colleagues gravely sentenced a forger to be imprisoned for a long period, and to have his nose slit. I had much difficulty in persuading them to omit the sentence of mutilation.
[80] He commanded a troop, but could not ride without holding on, having spent his life manufacturing puggarees.
[81] Eighty miles by one hundred.
[82] Prepared opium.
[83] Scott’s Old Mortality.
[84] I got cold in my face during the ride, and suffered considerably, Sylvester warning me on my return to Bersia, that if I shook my head all the teeth in the left side of my jaw would tumble out. Forty-eight hours of rest, however, brought me round.
[85] One was the former puggaree manufacturer who owned forty-five horses.
[86] Before I turned him out of the Lines.