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He replied, "So was I; and I fired three shots at you from behind a tree are you not wounded?" I replied, "No." "Well," said he, "I never missed my man before in my life." I asked him at what period of the action it was that he aimed at me. "When you were fighting with Sobah Khissna Rhannah," replied he.
In a letter addressed to me afterwards, by Captain Pickersgill, quarter-master-general of the army, I was congratulated on the fall of that distinguished sobah, or chieftain. His name, the quarter-master-general stated, was Khissna Rhannah Bahadur, and that he was the identical officer who had planned and executed the massacre at Summanpore and Persah, the season before.
This young man, it appeared, was the adjutant of the corps of which Khissna Rhannah, who fell under my fortunate sabre, was colonel. Our first march was tolerably easy, as it lay under a winding hill; and we reached nearly the top of the pass, and encamped.
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