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Rh We carried him from the Residency to Dr. Fayrer's house, amid a shower of bullets, and put him in one of the verandahs. There he seemed to feel that he had received his death-wound, and calling for the head people he gave over the chief commissionership into the hands of Major Banks, and the charge of the garrison to Colonel Inglis, at the same time giving them his last instructions what to do, among which was, "Never to give in."'

In the interval, and amid all the spasms of mortal agony, he was intent on arranging for the effective conduct of the defence. His dying orders and instructions are thus entered in Major Banks's Diary: —

'Reserve fire. Check all wall firing.

'Carefully register ammunition for guns and small aims in store. Carefully register daily expenditure as far as possible.

'Spare the precious health of Europeans in every possible way from shot and gun.

'Organize working parties for night labour.

'Entrench, entrench, entrench. Erect traverses. Cut off enemy's fire.

'Turn every horse out of the entrenchments except enough for four guns. Keep Sir Henry's horse Ludakee; it is a gift to his nephew, George Lawrence.

'Use the State prisoners as a means for getting in supplies, by gentle means if possible, or by threats.

'Enrol every servant as hildar, or carrier of earth. Pay liberally — double, quadruple.

'Turn out every native who will not work (save menials who have more than abundant labour).

'Write daily to Allahábád or Agra.

'Sir Henry Lawrence's servants to receive one year's pay;