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254 on till nine. Fearing the Budmashes, we left the road and took side paths, which brought us to a village. We had nothing to eat since Sunday morning, but could get nothing there except parched gram, (pulse for horses.) Eat a little and pushed on again.

“By this time Emma's poor feet gave out with soreness, so we bound them up with soft rags to make it easier to walk. We reached Mohumdee, which was infested, and were soon surrounded; but the Hindoo Jamedar (police officer) rescued us out of their hands, and asked who we were. I told him, ‘Give food and shelter, for we are strangers, and I will tell you who we are, and where going.’ He did, and then asked, ‘Are you Hindoos or Mohammedans?’ I said, ‘Neither; we are Christians.’ He advised us not to stop there, but to push on at once. We did, and on nearing Shahjehanpore I saw a Hindoo that I knew. Took him aside, and asked him if any Europeans in S. The man said, ‘Not one; all killed.’ So we turned off and made for Seetapore. Seeing a man watering fields I asked him if any Sahib logs [white gentlemen] at Seetapore. He said he ‘had heard that they were all killed or gone.’ We entered and passed through, and rested under a tamarind-tree beyond. Two Hindoos came by, and told of their own accord how the Sahibs were killed there, and added, ‘We are hunting for a native Christian.’ I asked why they should search for him. They replied, ‘He has defiled himself by eating with Christians.’ I said, ‘Nothing that a man eats can defile him.’ Then they asked, ‘Who are you?’ The Chowkeydar was afraid, and tried to put off the question. But I replied, ‘I am a Christian.’ They were not pleased, but went on. Soon meeting with two other men they pointed back to our party. For fear of mischief we rose and went on our way, and escaped them. My crying toward God was, ‘O that my head were waters, and mine eyes fountains of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the people of the Almighty!’ At length we reached Lucknow, which had not yet fallen, and there saw Sir Henry Lawrence and other Englishmen. One of them asked me all about Bareilly. After resting we went on toward Allahabad. In two days reached