254 SIR WILLIAM RAMSAY 



From that time there was a cloud over everything. It was 

 a time of real heartfelt sorrow. The bright turbans dis- 

 appeared and pathetic little bits of black were tacked 

 on somehow to the garments of even the poorest. 



Lahore was the next place on the programme, but 

 as the Lieutenant-Governor was in camp and as Ram- 

 say specially wanted to consult him on the subject 

 of Bangalore, where he, Sir Mackworth Young, had at 

 one time been resident, Lahore was given up and a visit 

 to the camp on the other side of the Sutlej was arranged. 

 Two days were first spent at Delhi, where they had time 

 to see the Ridge and the various spots so well known in 

 the history of the great siege, which they did in the com- 

 pany of one of the people Ramsay had specially to 

 consult, so no time was lost. The journey to the camp 

 was rather a novel experience. The first part was by 

 train and thence across country to the Sutlej. The 

 ruler of the native state had been asked to convey the 

 travellers from the railway to the other side of the river 

 and to do this had made in four days a road about eleven 

 miles long and laid it with rushes to keep down the dust. 

 Along this the Ramsays were driven in a state carriage 

 drawn by four mules, objects of much interest to the 

 inhabitants of the villages along the route, who had 

 watched the road being made and were curious as to its 

 object. From the carriage the travellers were put in 

 palkis, in which they were carried on board the boat 

 in which they were taken across the river, and on the 

 other side they were received by some of the staff and 



