before, and poor Adams would have been saved.  I know very little of this march, as I remember I slept through the whole of it, until morning, on horseback, being terribly fatigued and worn out.  The morning was delightfully cool, with a fresh bracing breeze from the north.  You may well imagine how we enjoyed it, after the terrible relaxation of the night before.  We reached our ground about seven, at a place called Nonsherah.  Here we heard some bloody-minded reports of the Beloochees, who had been plundering the artillery and left wing of the 19th, which were here the day before.  They seemed, however, to have made a pretty good retaliation, and four Beloochees’ heads were stuck upon the walls of the town, in proof of the soldiers’ vengeance.  In consequence of there being a good baggage-guard, the Beloochees made themselves tolerably scarce during this march, although the ground was very favourable for them.  However, they now and then took long shots from the nullahs, &c., that were near the road, but without doing any damage.  At last, a soldier, from the baggage-guard company of the 17th, having occasion to fall out, and going into a nullah for his purpose, unexpectedly found himself cheek by jowl with thirty of these rascals.  He was knocked down, but bellowing out most lustily, his section came up, and being joined by another section of the Queen’s, they shot about six of them dead, and put the rest to flight, having rescued the 17th man.  The robbers at this place were rather forward, and actually walked off with some camels that were out feeding close to the rear of our encampment, in the middle of the day.  They were, however, all recovered very soon by the Irregulars, and those of the robbers who could not manage to escape, managed to get their heads broken by these surwars; and intelligence having been received that a whole gang, with their families, were encamped near us, a party of fourteen, and one jemadar, of the 1st Light Cavalry, were sent out, who coming unexpectedly upon them, the robbers advanced to shew fight, when the jemadar gave the word to fire, and each trooper brought down his bird.  The rest immediately took to their heels, and owing to the nature of the ground (it was among the hills) effected their escape.  The troopers returned to camp with the swords and shields, &c., of the fallen.  From this place we marched again the next morning, and a short and easy march brought us to Dadur.

June 27th.—­I have not been able to write much lately, as it was literally too hot to do so.  We have had it from 115 to 120 in our tents during the day; for the last week, however, it has been getting cooler, and to-day is pleasant enough.  I wished also to keep the letter open as long as I could; but now, since we march on Sunday next, the 30th, I have not much time left, though I have a great deal more to say.  I received by the mail the confirmation of my lieutenancy, by Sir H. Fane, from Bombay.  An “overland”