happened in this wise. A lascar engaged in the factory at Dam-Dam asked a Brahman Sipahi to let him have a drink of water from his lotah, or brass pot. The Sipahi indignantly refused, on the ground that his caste would not permit him to use the lotah afterwards if it should be defiled by the drinking of a man of a lower position in. the Hindu hierarchy. The lascar, in reply, laughed at him for talking of defilement, when he said, 'You will all soon be biting cartridges smeared with the fat of the cow and the pig.' He then told the Sipahi the method of the new cartridges. The incident occurred
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