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Title: General John Jacob : commandant of the Sind Irregular Horse and founder of Jacobabad
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Shand, Alexander Innes, 1832-1907
Subjects: Jacob, John, 1812-1858 India -- History British occupation, 1765-1947
Publisher: London, Seeley and co., limited
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ed to be in the town, andthe envoys of the Khan of Khelat. At midnight, whenthe end was evidently near, he brought them into thedeath-chamber, and the picturesque assemblage at theclosing scene suggests a noble subject for an historicalpicture. It is said there was not a dry eye in the com-pany, and the old troopers of the Sind Horse mingledtheir tears with those of the leaders of the robbers whosestrength they had broken. The funeral was the more impressive from the absenceof all pomp and parade. By Jacobs express desire therewere no military honours, nor was even a volley firedover the grave. The deep silence among the martialmourners was only broken by the sobs and lamentationsof women in the background. The officers of hisregiments were grouped round the grave ; it was one ofthem who read the funeral service, and the cortege whocame crowding behind were the men of the Sind Horse,the Belooch mountaineers, who had learned to fearand love him, and the thriving cultivators of adjacent
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«.. ca O THE DEATH IN HARNESS 311 fields which had been reclaimed from the waste byhis beneficent genius. The Belooch comforted them-selves with the fond imagination that as his bodyhad been committed to their soil, his spirit w^ouldremain to watch over them. The will was brief, andall his belongings were bequeathed to his friend Mere-wether. The charge of the frontiers devolved upon Green, whowas subsequently confirmed in the command. In themeantime the arrival of Merewether was hourly expected,and Merewether would temporarily supersede him asJacobs lieutenant. They were old comrades and fastfriends, but it gives an idea of the untractable spiritswhom Jacob had barely tamed, that one of Greens nativeofficers came to him secretly on the evening of thefuneral, taking it for granted that he would wish to holdthe post against a supplanter, and assuring him that themen were ready to stand by him. But Green had urgentbusiness elsewhere, and had scarcely seen his friend laidin the

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