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HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAVY.
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one man was killed, and a boy, who was wounded, and another
seaman, saved their lives by running round the coast to the
Barrier gate, while the remainder swam off to a waterboat
which happened to be near at hand. Shortly afterwards a
Sepoy of the 3rd Madras Native Infantry was wounded at the
Barrier gate, by a fanatic, who was shot by the sentry. On the
28th of February, 1854, a party of officers from the garrison,
consisting of Captain Milne, of the Bombay Army, Lieutenant
M'Pherson, of H.M.'s 78th Highlanders, Lieutenants Ogilvie
and Henchy, of the Madras Artillery, and Mr. Saulez, pro
ceeded into the interior for antelope shooting, being accom
panied to Lahej by Lieutenant Cruttenden, of the Indian Navy,
Assistant Political Agent, who, having procured an escort from
the Sultan for their protection, returned to Aden. The party
spent the following night at a neighbouring village, inhabited
entirely by Syuds, or descendants of the Prophet, where they
imprudently dismissed their guard. In the middle of the night,,
a fanatic, named Syud Hoossein, succeeded in gaining entrance
to the courtyard, where they were sleeping, and killed Captain
Milne, and wounded Lieutenant M'Pherson and Mr. Saulez,
and, making his escape, found refuge with Ahmed bin Abdulla,
the Foudtheli Sultan. A few days later, on the 27th of March,
an armed Arab, from Bir Ahmed, contrived to evade the police
at Steamer Point, and landed at Aden, with the intention, it
was supposed, of assassinating the Political Agent, Captain
Haines. The first European he met was Lieutenant Delisser,
of H.M.'s 78th Highlanders, whom he attacked, when that
officer, who was riding, dismounted, and grappled with the
assassin, and, after having received several wounds, killed him
with his own jembea, or Arab dagger. The body was sub
sequently hung in chains at the Barrier gate, through which all
the Arabs from the interior had to pass on entering Aden. On
the 4th of June, in the same year, a Sepoy was wounded out
side the Barrier gate, and, on the 12th of July following, some
of the crew of the merchant vessel, 6 Sons of Commerce,' which
had been wrecked at Koobet Sailan, having landed, were at
tacked, and two men murdered and the wreck plundered by the
subjects of the Lahej Sultan. The captain and four of the crew
proceeded to Aden, where they arrived on the following day,
when the c Elphinstone,' Lieutenant Batt, was despatched with
some troops, and brought the survivors in safety to Aden.
Lieutenant Lithgow, first of the 4 Elphinstone,' proceeded on
shore to examine the wreck, when a body of four hundred
Arabs opened fire upon the boat. As the wreck was beyond
rescue and the weather very boisterous, the ' Elphinstone'
returned to Aden. The chief instigator of this outrage, was
seized by the Sultan of Lahej, and executed on the 27th of
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