policy we are all compelled to bow, and it only remains for me to
express my regret to every officer and man of the 1st and 2nd West
India Regiments, for the natural and laudable disappointment which
they have experienced in not being engaged in more active military
operations, and to tender my heartfelt thanks for the prompt and
ready obedience with which they responded to my call on behalf of
our Royal Mistress, and for their patience and endurance under
extraordinary trial.

"Major Anton I have served with, and marked with admiration his
display of fortitude, moral courage, and disinterested kindness
during the fearful epidemic of 1859 in the Gambia. Captain Bravo, as
second in command in the Gambia, was my esteemed friend, and enjoyed
the respect of all who knew him.

* * * * *

"This hasty and imperfect notice I trust you will not deem unworthy
of being communicated to the highest military authority, and I shall
esteem myself fortunate indeed if I shall be instrumental in the
remotest degree in their advancement.

"I have, etc.,
(Signed) "RICHARD PINE,
"Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gold Coast.

"The Hon. Colonel CONRAN,
"Commanding the troops on the Gold Coast."

The _Wambojeez_ arrived at Barbados on the 3rd of September; there the
detachment of the 1st West India Regiment embarked by companies in
H.M.S. _Pylades_, _Greyhound_, and _Styx_, for Jamaica, and disembarked
at Port Royal on the 15th of September. H and C Companies rejoining at
Jamaica soon after from Honduras and Trinidad, the distribution of the
regiment was as follows: head-quarters and three companies at Nassau,
five companies in Jamaica.

NOTE.--Out of the 11 officers and 300 non-commissioned officers and
men who landed at Cape Coast Castle on the 9th April, only 6
officers and 269 non-commissioned officers and men re-embarked on
July 30th, 5 officers having been invalided, and 31 men having died
during their short stay of three months and a half.

CHAPTER XXVI.

THE JAMAICA REBELLION, 1865.

In October, 1865, a rebellion broke out amongst the black population of
Jamaica. On the 7th of that month, at the Petty Sessions at Morant Bay,
a prisoner, who had been convicted of an assault, was rescued from