Back in Dacca

Meanwhile, Dacca continued on, peaceably enough according to Mr. Brennand.

View of Dacca College in the background and the court building – the college was constructed on the site of the first English factory in Dacca

1st, 2nd and 3rd of August – The three days of Buckereed (Bakra Eid). The Volunteers all on the alert: patrols out all night on each of the three days. The 2nd being Sunday, a party of Volunteers stationed at the College to protect the people who were at church.
11th August – Many of the Armenians are leaving for Calcutta. The Europeans are thinking of fortifying the Mills. The Volunteers are on parade for several hours daily and are making good progress in drill.

The Armenians had been nervous for some time, as their letter to Calcutta shows and had been most dissatisfied with the quarters of Lewis and the Naval Brigade, well back in June.

The Mill building – it would later be repurposed in 1857 as a barrack

14th and 15th of August – The festival of Junmostomee. There was as usual a large crowd of people. Cavalry Volunteers were mounted on elephants and well-armed but all passed off quietly. It has been decided that if the men of Julpigoree do mutiny the sepoys here shall be at once disarmed.

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