From a tall tree; And now at Its sweet cry pierces the young lover’s heart’

There was an enormous banyan-tree with a temple for the Guardian deity in the centre of the town where Stewart had his headquarters. It was impeding the flow of traffic. Nobody dared touch it. In the end the elders approached Stewart about the tree. Stewart summoned his soldiers, put dynamite around the tree and demolished it within a few seconds. Three weeks later Stewart and his men were ordered to go to Mesopotamia.