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marched them out of Camp
No instructions
armed.
were given to the patrol by anybody
as to whether they
were to use their arms or
not, that being, to use the
words of the
officer, left to
their discretion - The party proceeded some two hundred
yards
or so
from the Camp,
in the direction in which the Subahdar had been
attacked and the prisoner Bhankah, having been detached about fifty yards
in advance as ordered, perceived a Chinaman
rushing upon him with something in his hand, the night being dark, the
time between 8.30 and 9. P.M., he halted, and brought his
bayonet
musket to
the charge, and the man,
by the
force of his
run, rushed
his own
upon
the
bayonet, striking Bhankah
at the same time a blow
with, what turned out
afterwards to be, a bamboo pole which he had in his hand. - The Chinaman
then turned and ran,
three other Chinamen, who