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Excerpt from Records of the Intelligence Department of the Government of the North-West Provinces of India, Vol. 1: During the Mutiny of 1857, Including Correspondence With the Supreme Government, Dehli, Cawnpore, and Other Places
Reading thus, it dawned upon me that these same old neglected books, containing as they do the result of my daily correspondence with the officers of the Company throughout our beleaguered districts, and still more the often hourly record of reports taken at the mouth of messengers and spies, might have a special interest and value not only for the family, but for others desiring to consult them. Besides much personal informa tion, they present a vivid picture of our insulated position at Agra, and of the reeking ?ood of mutiny that poured arormd These records had been made over to Kaye, and were used by him till, on his untimely death in the middle of his great work, they were returned to me and put aside. I have now gone carefully over them. How they carry one back to those terrible times, and to the singular experience of the Agra Fort when we, with five or six thousand souls, were segregated for months within its walls from all the world!
I mention these Volumes here, simply because they led my thoughts back to the days of the Mutiny. In using them for my little story, I have only referred to such occasional details in them as bear upon our life at Agra, and the dangers that beset us. There is no attempt at following the Mutiny else where. I will notice at the end of this sketch how I propose to deal with the Volumes themselves. Meanwhile I proceed to the rough - and-ready outline which I have promised to the family, of our life and experiences at Agra.
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