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 their left flank, seven battalions of Imperial Service Infantry, two companies of Sappers and Miners, and a Brigade Division of Royal Field Artillery. On their right flank, the Volunteer Infantry, three companies of Sappers and Miners, a balloon and pontoon section, six companies of the Royal Garrison Artillery, and two Brigade Divisions of the Royal Field Artillery. In a line from the extreme right flank of the Army to the Amphitheatre, and from the extreme left flank to the Durbar Road, the 3rd Bengal Cavalry, in extended order, kept the plain clear of stragglers. At the point where the Durbar Road approached the Amphitheatre, it was lined by three batteries of the Royal Horse Artillery. The Durbar Road for a distance of nearly two miles was kept by cavalry. First came fourteen squadrons of Imperial Service Cavalry ; then six companies of Mounted Infantry ; then the Divisional and Corps Cavalry, sixteen squadrons strong ; after these the little detachment of Volunteer Cavalry; and finally, as the Amphitheatre was neared, two full Cavalry Brigades, twenty-four squadrons strong. Two other thoroughfares led to the scene of the Durbar, Prince's Road and Review Road. These were lined by the mounted retinues of the ruling chiefs. Their footmen, a motley assemblage, and the army of elephants, were massed upon the plain to the south-west of the Amphitheatre.

This, then, was the setting of the picture. The illimitable brown plain ; in its centre, the great Amphitheatre, its roof gleaming in the sunshine ;