we will have some more sport next week."

There was some consultation as to the chance of getting the sow even now,
but it was generally agreed that she would follow the nullah down, cross
the stream, and get into a large canebrake beyond, from which it would
take hours to dislodge her; so a general move was made to the carriages,
and in a short time the whole party were on their way back to
Sandynugghur.




CHAPTER II.

THE OUTBREAK.


A week after the boar-hunt came the news that a Sepoy named Mangul Pandy,
belonging to the Thirty-fourth Native Infantry, stationed at Barrackpore,
a place only a few miles out of Calcutta, had, on the 29th of March,
rushed out upon the parade ground and called upon the men to mutiny. He
then shot the European sergeant-major of the regiment, and cut down an
officer. Pandy continued to exhort the men to rise to arms, and although
his comrades would not join him, they refused to make any movement to
arrest him. General Hearsey now arrived on the parade ground with his son
and a Major Ross, and at once rode at the man, who, finding that his
comrades would not assist him, discharged the contents of the musket into
his own body.

Two days later the mutinous Nineteenth were disbanded at Barrackpore. On