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"As it proved, however, there was no great safety there, either The whole country was up like a swarlish could collect in little bands they held just the ground that their guns coitives It was a fight of the ainst the hundreds; and the cruellest part of it was that these unners, were our own picked troops, e had taught and trained, handling our oeapons, and blowing our own bugle-calls At Agra there were the 3d Bengal Fusiliers, some Sikhs, two troops of horse, and a battery of artillery A volunteer corps of clerks andand all We went out to e early in July, and we beat theave out, and we had to fall back upon the city Nothing but the worst news came to us from every side,--which is not to be wondered at, for if you look at the ht in the heart of it Lucknow is rather better than a hundred miles to the east, and Cawnpore about as far to the south Fro but torture and reat place, swar with fanatics and fierce devil-worshippers of all sorts Our handful ofstreets Our leader moved across the river, therefore, and took up his position in the old fort at Agra I don't know if any of you gentle of that old fort It is a very queer place,--the queerest that ever I was in, and I have been in some rum corners, too First of all, it is enormous in size I should think that the enclosure must be acres and acres There is a arrison, wo else, with plenty of roo like the size of the old quarter, where nobody goes, and which is given over to the scorpions and the centipedes It is all full of great deserted halls, and winding passages, and long corridors twisting in and out, so that it is easy enough for folk to get lost in it For this reason it was seldoain a party with torches