She resented the refusal of permission to adopt a son, and the consequent annexation of the state, and was further deeply offended by several acts of the English Administration, above all by the permission of cow-slaughter. Accordingly, when the Mutiny broke out, she quickly joined the rebels. On the 7th and 8th June, 1857, all the Europeans in Jhânsî, men, women, and children, to the number of about seventy persons, were cruelly murdered by her orders, or with her sanction. On the 9th June her authority was proclaimed. In the prolonged fighting which ensued, she placed herself at the head of her troops, whom she led with great gallantry. In June, 1858, after a year's bloodstained reign, she was killed in battle. By November, 1858, the country was pacified. CHAPTER 30 Haunted Villages. On the 16th[1] we came on nine miles to Amabâi, the frontier village of the Jhânsî territory, bordering upon Datiyâ,[2] where I had to receive the farewell visits of many members of the Jhânsî parties, who came on to have a quiet opportunity to assure me that, whatever may be the final order of the Supreme Government, they will do their best for the good of the people and the state; for I have always considered Jhânsî among the native states of Bundêlkhand as a kind of oasis in the desert, the only one in which a man can accumulate property with the confidence of being permitted by its rulers freely to display and enjoy it. I had also to receive the visit of messengers from the Râjâ of Datiyâ, at whose capital we were to encamp the next day, and, finally, to take leave of my amiable little friend the Sarîmant, who here left me on his return to Sâgar, with a heavy heart I really believe.