Sandokan: The Two Tigers (The Sandokan Series Book 4)
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On the 18th, the Kishenganj battery and its seventy-five cannons was captured by the British, the men defending it receiving the same fate as those in the royal palace.
On the same day the kotwali or City Hall was taken and a hundred and fifty Indians, among them several members of the Imperial family, who had surrendered after having been promised their lives would be spared, were shot and hanged!
By the 20th, Delhi was in British hands, and then the slaughter began in earnest.
The city was ransacked. Thousands upon thousands of Indians were murdered by troops drunk with gin and bloodlust, without regard for age or gender. The brave men who had fought to free India from the British fell, many after killing their wives and children with their very hands so they would not fall victim to the victors’ cruelty.
On the 24th, Sandokan and his companions, after having obtained General Wilson’s permission, left the devastated city. The hangings and the shootings still had not stopped and thousands upon thousands of bodies lay in the streets, rotting where they had fallen. De Lussac, disgusted by the savagery, had requested and obtained permission to accompany them to Calcutta.
The mutiny had been suppressed. Only the brave Tantia Topi, and the proud and beautiful Rani of Jhansi still waved the flag of freedom with a band of brave men among the thick jungle and vast forests of the Bundelcund.[25]
Fifteen days later, Sandokan, Yanez, Tremal-Naik, and Darma after having generously rewarded Sirdar and said their long goodbyes to the brave Frenchman, boarded the Marianna and set sail for Mompracem.
Surama, who had by then conquered Yanez’ heart, the tiger and Punthy accompanied them.
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[1]A type of red carp.
[2] A large rectangular piece of cloth worn about the waist
[3] A cape made from coarse cloth
[4] Clarified butter
[5] Cows are considered sacred in India. Their milk, urine and dung are considered pure. Smearing it on walls keeps away flies.
[6] Bourgeois folk
[7] Religious dancers
[8] A long Indian trumpet made of four pipes of fine metal which can emit sound over a great distance.
[9] A small brass canon that fires one-pound cannon balls.
[10]Torchbearers
[11] Strong liquor made from opium. It has a strong intoxicating effect.
[12] Asian Koel or nightingale
[13] A type of duck
[14] True
[15] Antelope
[16] Loincloth
[17] An elephant goad, a short pole with a spike and a hook at one end
[18] A species of tall grass
[19] Spotted deer
[20] A type of wolf
[21] Barking deer
[22] Indian music is based on a set of ragas or melodies related to the seasons of the year. They’re melancholy in winter, lively in spring, languid in summer and bright in autumn.
[23] Indian officer equivalent to a lieutenant
[24] Short sabre
[25] That famous general kept three British divisions occupied for a year and only surrendered after the Rani’s death.
Contents
The Sandokan Series
Contents
Chapter 1 The Marianna
Chapter 2 Darma
Chapter 3 Tremal-Naik
Chapter 4 The Mahant
Chapter 5 The Dharmaraja Festival
Chapter 6 The Devadasi
Chapter 7 Surama’s Tale
Chapter 8 Sati
Chapter 9 The Mahant’s Confession
Chapter 10 A Terrible Battle
Chapter 11 In the Jungle
Chapter 12 The Rhinoceros Attacks
Chapter 13 The Man-Eater
Chapter 14 The First Tiger
Chapter 15 In the Sundarbans
Chapter 16 The Thugs
Chapter 17 Mysterious Signals
Chapter 18 The Cyclone
Chapter 19 The Devadasi Disappears
Chapter 20 The Tower of Barrackpore
Chapter 21 Betrayal
Chapter 22 Sirdar
Chapter 23 Rajmangal
Chapter 24 The Thugs’ Pagoda
Chapter 25 In the Thugs’ Lair
Chapter 26 The Pirates Attack
Chapter 27 A Slaughter
Chapter 28 On Suyodhana’s Trail
Chapter 29 The Indian Rebellion
Chapter 30 Spies
Chapter 31 The Escape
Chapter 32 Towards Delhi
Chapter 33 The Delhi Massacre
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