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HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAVY.
from Calcutta, on the 11th of October, and the 4 Punjaub,'
Commander Foulerton, on the 21st of September, and she
proceeded to Kurrachee on the 8th of October, returning thence
on the 18th, and again sailing for Vingorla on the 11th of
November. The ' Ajdaha,' Commander Worsley, was also en
gaged transporting troops, and, on Thursday, the 1st of October,
arrived from Kurrachee with the first intelligence of the
storming of Delhi on the 14th of September, which was received
in Bombay with great manifestations of delight, Lord Elphin-
stone, who happened to be entertaining a large party at Go
vernment House, giving as a bumper toast, u General Wilson
and his brave army." On the 20th of October the 6 Ajdaha'
proceeded to Mangalore, and, on the 9th of November, sailed
for Aden, which was almost denuded of European troops by
Brigadier Coghlan, who, with great forethought and no little
courage, considering the large native garrison, had despatched
to Bombay the wing of H.M/s 86th Regiment, and trusted to
one battery of European Artillery, and the crews of the
4 Elphinstone' and ' Mahi,' which were held in readiness to
inarch up to camp in the event of their services being required.
The 6 Lady Canning,' Lieutenant Peevor, arrived at Bombay
from Viziadroog in the latter part of October, with sixty-six
mutineers of the 27th Native Infantry, under sentence of trans
portation to Penang, in charge of a Detachment of H.M.'s 95th
Regiment, and a party of the Indian Naval Brigade employed on
that coast. In August, 1857, that arch-plotter, the Moulvie of
Poona, and eight accomplices, was brought from Tanna, and
sent on board the guard-ship 'Akbar,' in Bombay Harbour,
where he was kept in close confinement.
An officer of the Indian Navy was enabled to fulfil an im
portant service to his country in the crisis of the Mutiny. Lord
Elphinstone, who, at this critical time, displayed himself in his
true colours as a courageous and sagacious governor, selected
Captain Griffith Jenkins, then officiating Assistant-Superinten
dent, to proceed to Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope, with
full powers to solicit aid from those colonies, in men, horses,
and money, for the Indian Government. Captain Jenkins at
four hours' notice, sailed on the 30th of June, from Bombay, in
the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer 'Pottinger,'
Captain Stead, and arrived at Port Louis on the night of the
19th of July. He left the steamer in the offing, and, landing,
posted up to Government House on the neighbouring moun
tains ; arousing the Governor out of his bed at past midnight,
he placed before him the critical state of affairs in India. Sir
James Higginson, who was ignorant of the outbreak of the
Mutiny, immediately summoned his Council to meet him at
daylight, and, with an energy becoming the crisis, succeeded in