Forty-One Years in India (From Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief)

The Mutiny was not an unmitigated evil for to it we owe the consolidation of our power in India as it hastened on the construction of the roads railways and telegraphs so wisely and thoughtfully / plannet by the Marquis of Dalhousie and which have done more than anything to increase the prosperity of the people and preserve order throughout the country. [...] The force of circumstances—the inevitable result of the contact of civilization with barbarisnP—impelled them to cross the Jaxartes and extend their territories to the Khanates of Turkestan and the banks of the Oxus just as the same uncontrollable force carried us across the Sutlej and extended our territories to the valley of the Indus. [...] The change to the deliaphtful freshness of a Himalayan climate after the Turkish-bath-like atmosphere of the plains in Septeber was most grateful and I thoroughly enjoyed the few days I spent in the midst of the lovely mountain scenery. [...] The ladies and children were put inside and my cousin and I spent the day in the verandah ; in the evening with the assistance of the overseer we were able to get a sufficient number of bearers to carry us. [...] The noise consequent on the struggle attracted the attention of some of the domestic servants and one of the Native officials.