.NDc0Ng.MzM5Mjg

European officers, 200 soldiers, with 300 Sepoys, and several thousand camp followers died, and it was calculated what with deaths and the desertions caused by dread of the epidemic, addition deletion unclear /deletion /addition the numbers in the service of the Governor General decreased by some 20,000. An outbreak of the epidemic in Calcutta, during the early autumn had been quickly suppressed; there were plenty of deletion d /deletion doctors and magistrates to deal with the situation, but in a camp it was deletion very /deletion different; in Indian armies an average of from eight to ten men accompanied each fighting man ^ addition and /addition many of the latter, being seized on the march, died in a few minutes. As there were far too few doctors to deal with the deletion situation /deletion addition unclear /addition all the ^ addition English /addition officers became practitioners; ^ addition and /addition little bottles of laudanum and calomel, the two stock remedies, were always available deletion and /deletion of Colonel FitzClarence's addition twenty-nine patients /addition patients, twenty-three recovered; he had never quitted them until he deletion was /deletion addition had been /addition attacked himself. What addition had /addition struck him was the apathy of the natives; addition while /addition the gratitude of two or three was most touching, the rest seemed to be without feelings. Two Bramins died owing to their high caste; they said that they could only accept food from one another, but Colonel FitzClarence had no difficulty in this respect.

Early in the campaign the Governor General decided to send addition home /addition deletion back /deletion two of his aide-de-camps with dispatches, his head aide -decamp was to go by sea, Colonel FitzClarence by land.