ropagation Society, with whom we had much pleasant intercourse.
Within less than half a mile of this house lay the entrenched camp of
the English--if a trench three or four feet deep, with a breastwork of
earth behind it four or five feet high, deserves the name of an
entrenchment. The spot was chosen on account of the barracks, in which
our people could shelter themselves against what they expected to be a
mere temporary assault, if an assault at all was made, as they supposed
the mutinous soldiery would leave at once for Delhi, which they would
have done had not the Nana stopped them by large pay and larger
promises. The barracks speedily became well-nigh uninhabitable under the
fire of the enemy. At last they were burnt down, and no shelter remained
from the fierce rays of the sun. One could not look on the spot, and
consider the weakness of the defenders compared with the strength of the
enemy, supplied as they were with the guns and ammunition of our
arsenal, without wondering the defence could have been maintained for a
day. The defence was most heroic; extraordinary feats of valour were
performed, but at last the besieged were obliged to succumb from the
failure of food and ammunition.

We walked from the entrenchment, which was rapidly disappearing under
the rains and heat of the climate, by the route taken by our people to
the promised boats, which were set on fire as soon as they reached them.
It was truly a _via dolorosa_, and we walked on it with saddened hearts,
musing on the awful sufferings our countrymen had endured. On a little
temple close to the ferry at which the boats lay, and on some houses
near it, we saw marks of the bullets on the walls.

Since that period--the winter of 1858-59--we have been on several
occasions at Cawnpore. The desolation has disappeared. Ruined houses are
no longer to be seen. A stranger might pass through the place without
observing anything to remind him of the events of 1857. He would be a
very preoccupied or a very stolid person who could pass through Cawnpore
without making it a point to see the monuments erected to commemorate
our fallen countrymen. On the site of the entrenched camp a memorial
church has been raised, with stained windows and varied devices bearing
the names of those who had fought and suffered there. A very handsome
monument of marble, surmounted by a statue of the Angel of Peace, with a
suitable inscription, has been erected over the well into which t