 | Scotland - 1857 - 922 pages
...Sepoy of the 2d Native Infantry on the ground of caste, replied, " You will soon lose your caste, as you will have to bite cartridges covered with the fat of pigs and cows." At this place there is a dep6t of musketry, wnere the native soldiers are instructed in the use of... | |
 | India - 1858 - 438 pages
...of what caste he was. ' Ah ! ' was the immediate rejoinder, ' You will lose your caste ere long, for you will have to bite cartridges covered with the fat of pigs and cows ' — the cow being, as is well known, sacred to the Hindoos ;• the swine unclean to the Hindoos... | |
 | Henry Mead - India - 1857 - 448 pages
...; the Sepoy refused, observing he was not aware of what caste the man was ; the classic immediately rejoined, ' You will soon lose your caste, as ere...cartridges covered with the fat of pigs and cows,' or words to that effect. Some of the depot men, in conversing with me on the subject last night, said... | |
 | 1857 - 422 pages
...refused, observing that he was not aware of what caste the man was. The workman immediately replied, ' You will soon lose your caste, as ere long you will...cartridges covered with the fat of pigs and cows.'* This anecdote spread far and wide, and the Sepoys felt as if they were sliding down towards a precipice.... | |
 | American periodicals - 1857 - 850 pages
...Sepoy of the 2nd Native Infantry on the ground of caste, replied, " You will soon lose your caste, as you will have to bite cartridges covered with the fat of pigs and cows." At this place there is a depot of musketry, where th« native soldiers are instructed in the use of... | |
 | Noah Alfred Chick - India - 1859 - 1010 pages
...The sepoy refused, observing, he was not aware of what caste the man was ; the classic immediately rejoined, " You will soon lose your caste, as ere...cartridges covered with the fat of pigs and cows," or words to that effect 3. Some of the depot-men in conversing with me on the subject last night, said... | |
 | Erwin House - Missionaries - 1860 - 398 pages
...indignant and refused, whereupon the work man sneeringly said to him, " You will soon lose your caste ; as you will have to bite cartridges covered with the fat of pigs and cows." At the Calcutta artillery-house was a large parade ground where the native soldiers, called Sepoys,... | |
 | Charles Henry Eden - India - 1876 - 356 pages
...vessel). The Sepoy refused, observing he was not aware of what caste the man was. The classie immediately rejoined, ' You will soon lose your caste, as ere...cartridges covered with the fat of pigs and cows,' or words to that effect. Some of the depot men, in conversing with me on the subject last night, said... | |
 | Edward Henry Nolan - 1878 - 446 pages
...; the sepoy refused, observing he was not aware of what caste the man was ; the classie immediately rejoined, ' You will soon lose your caste, as ere...cartridges covered with the fat of pigs and cows,' or words to that effect. Some of the depot men, in conversing with me on the subject last night, said... | |
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You will soon lose your caste, as ere long you will have to bite cartridges covered with the fat of pigs and cows, 
