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334.)

Edward Gordon sworn
I belong to the 6th European battalion, as a private. Last march I was at Denapore. I do not remember a man named Chytter being killed in that month; but I heard a black man had been killed. I was not in the affray, nor did I see the body of a native, who had been killed. I heard a body was brought to cantonment, but I was then on parade. I know a village near Dinapoor at the back of the village of Ufseri, where the men were drinking toddy. Among those men were both the prisoners, Hastings and Grant were the two first men, who began to make a disturbance, and break up the company. They went to drink between seven and eight in the morning: we had before been all (10 or 11 of us) drinking in the fives alley. We thence went to Ussuri to get toddy: we assembled, & toddy was brought, I know