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 camp, and it amused him at first, but it had become une bourre, and now he is gone off to see Agra and Delhi and get a little tiger-shooting.

Allahabad, February 14. So far so good. The steamer cannot come within twenty miles of this place, the river is so low that we are going down to it in budgerows, and are to go and sleep on board them to-night. Can you imagine our fatigue, though we came in from a long march yesterday morning, to have a fancy fair and supper in the evening, and a ball and supper to-night, and with that the whole camp breaking up, and constant petty arrangements to make or break?

The fancy fair was tiresome, but somehow the cheapest and best ‘Europe shop’ I have seen in the Upper Provinces, and we got home early. To-night we have written to beg they will have supper early, and we go on board from the ball, and then off early to-morrow, and I hope we shall be at Calcutta in fourteen or fifteen days. I heard from George; still delighted with travelling, in fact (how a railroad would laugh!), and with having got away