| John Tulloch Nash

“ I need hardly add that I allude only to those men — like ourselves — upon whom the thunderbolt of the Mutiny fell, and not to those who subsequently aided in its suppression.
In fact, the stage on which that tragical catastrophe occurred was so vast in extent, and the actors on it so prodigious in numbers, that even at this distance of time numberless episodes of the Mutiny — all more or less laden with agonising sorrow — are unknown, and, alas! many never will be known; for hundreds of our unfortunate countrymen, who could have described harrowing and heart-rending scenes, perished ”

“ Not an inhabitant had tarried in the ill-fated town to witness its general wreck. All had fled, taking such goods and chattels as they could in the hurry of flight conveniently carry away with them, and leaving the remainder to the tender mercies of any one.
By this precipitate retreat of the rebels from Banse, it was consoling to anticipate another encounter with them in the open field, and also satisfactory to find the inhabitants restored to their homes, without their having suffered from our guns. ”