rro THE EDITOR OP THE ”srsereroa.."1 Sin,—Another but little-known hero
was Major Sydney Waudby, of the 19th Bombay Native Infantry, who, though he knew the little post of Dabrai, in Southern Afghanistan, was to be attacked by a horde of Afghans, scorned to leave it, but elected to defend it with two Sepoys of his own regiment and three sovrars of the Scinde Horse, and when a relieving column arrived next day, too late, was found dead at one angle of the enclosure with a dead Sepoy on either aide, his bull terrier 'Boxer' on guard beside them; and before them the dead bodies of thirteen Afghans which the enemy had left. This heroic incident "Pro Patri5, " will find more fully described in Chambers's Journal some eight or ten years ago. I mention one more : the civilian at Cawnpore who, not being a fighting man, undertook the dangerous duty, the forlorn hope, of bringing water from a well outside for the women and children, and met the fate he anticipated. I think "Pro Patriti," will be furnished with lots of examples.—I am,
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