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The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 | |
マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.1 |
XXXV1 MEMOIR OF SIR HENRY YULE 1843-47.
streaming in the wind. He always dwells in my memory as a
sort of pythoness on her tripod under the afflatus." 20
During his Indian service, Yule had renewed and continued
by letters his suit to Miss White, and persistency prevailing at
last, he soon after the conclusion of the Khytul affair applied for
leave to go home to be married. He sailed from Bombay in
May, 1843, and in September of the same year was married, at
Bath, to the gifted and large-hearted woman who, to the end, re-
mained the strongest and happiest influence in his life.3o
Yule sailed for India with his wife in November 1843. The
next two years ;vere employed chiefly in irrigation work, and do
not call for special note. They were very happy years, except
in the one circumstance that the climate having seriously
affected his wife's health, and she having been brought to death's
door, partly by illness, but still more by the drastic medical
treatment of those days, she was imperatively ordered back to
England by the doctors, who forbade her return to India.
Having seen her on board ship, Yule returned to duty on the
canals, The close of that year, December, 1845, brought some
variety to his work, as the outbreak of the first Sikh War called
nearly all the canal officers into the field. " They went up to
the front by long marches, passing through no stations, and
quite unable to obtain any news of what had occurred, though
on the 21st December the guns of Ferozshah were distinctly heard
in their camp at Pehoa, at a distance of 115 miles south-east from
the field, and some days later they came successively on the
fields of Moodkee and of Ferozshah itself, with all the recent
traces of battle. When the party of irrigation officers reached
head-quarters, the arrangements for attacking the Sikh army in
its entrenchments at Sobraon were beginning (though suspended
till weeks later for the arrival of the tardy siege guns), and the
opposed forces were lying in sight of each other." 31
Yule's share in this campaign was limited to the sufficiently
arduous task of bridging the Sutlej for the advance of the
British army. It is characteristic of the man that for this
29 Note by Yule, communicated by him to Mr R. B. Smith and printed by the latter in Life of Lord Lawrence.
30 And when nearing his own end, it was to her that his thoughts turned most constantly.
31 Yule and Maelagan's Memoir of Sir W. Baker,
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