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low mud walls, that were then the sole protection of the little 

 force gathered within, have now entirely disappeared, and their 

 place has been taken by a low hedge marking the boundaries ; 

 while a few stone pillars show the positions of the frail buildings 

 that stood there at the time of the leaguer. The well alone 

 remains unaltered, and its crumbling woodwork bears the mark 

 of shot and shell. This well provided the only water supply to 

 the entire party of almost a thousand souls through the whole 

 three weeks' siege ; and, aware of this, the rebels, with fiendish 

 cruelty, concentrated their heaviest fire upon it. Some of the 

 bravest deeds of that awful time, when every man was a hero 

 and every woman a heroine, were enacted around this spot, 

 ever sacred to English hearts as long as the memory of the 

 pitiful tragedy of Cawnpore shall endure. 



THE MAGAZINE AT DELHI. 



MAGAZINE AT DELHI. At the time of the taking of Delhi by 

 the Mutineers, on May llth, 1857, the magazine, of which the 

 picture represents the sole remaining portion, was held by a 

 party of nine Englishmen under Lieut. Willoughby, described 

 before the Mutiny as " a shy, refined, boyish-looking subaltern,' 5 

 but one of the noblest heroes called forth by that great disaster. 



