IN

A SOLDIER'S LIFE:

BEING

A CONNECTED NARRATIVE

OF

THE PRINCIPAL MILITARY EVENTS

IN

SCINDE, BEELOOCHISTAN, AND AFFGHANISTAN,

During 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, and 1843,

UNDER GENERALS LORD KEANE, BROOKS, SIR R. SALE, WILTSHIRE,
POLLOCK, NOTT, ENGLAND, M'CASKILL, AND SIR C. NAPIER.

BY J. H. W. HALL,

66

AUTHOR OF "ETHALDI," THE OUTCAST,", "THE DESERTERS," ETC. ETC.

I ran it through, even from my boyish days,

To the very moment that he bade me tell it;

Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances;

Of moving accidents, by flood, and field;

Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach;
Of my being taken by the insolent foe,

And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence,

And portance in my travels' history;

Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle,

Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven,

It was my hint to speak, such was the process."

Shakspere's Othello.

Montreal:

R. AND C. CHALMERS; LONDON, LONGMAN AND COMPANY;
NEW YORK, BERFORD AND COMPANY.

1848.

MONTREAL:

Printed by LoVELL and GIBSON, St. Nicholas Street.

THESE

SCENES IN A SOLDIER'S LIFE

ARE

MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

то

COLONEL A. GUGY, M. P. P.

LATE ADJUTANT GENERAL OF MILITIA,

AS A TOKEN OF THE ESTEEM ENTERTAINED FOR HIM

AS A

Loyal Subject, Soldier, Statesman, and Friend,

BY HIS MOST OBEDIENT AND HUMBLE SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.

OTHE

ANBODLE

LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS.

Alexander, Sir Jas. Edward......A. D. C. to Com.,-in-Chief,.... 1

Boys, Armourer Sergeant,........23rd Fusiliers.........................