to bring all sorts of animals, antelopes, hares, deer, etc., but unhappily, most of them died on the voyage.
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“I am sadly afraid that the Indian Nabob will be grievously disgusted, and carry back evil reports to India, whither he is to return.”
Mr. Sewell, apparently, was responsible for the nick-name “Nabob” by which Sir Cracroft Wilson was afterwards known. Mr. Wilson did return to India, and greatly distinguished himself during the Mutiny, and was recommended by Lord Canning to the favourable consideration of Her Majesty’s Government as having “saved more Christian lives than any man in India.” As a reward for this service, he was made a K.C.B., and later on a K.C.S.I.
After the Mutiny, Sir Cracroft Wilson took up his residence at “Cashmere,” near Christchurch, where he died in 1881.
