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14. Sunday, preaclied in same manner to H.M. 53rd Eegi- 

 ment. Tho' the service was half-an-hour before sunrise, many 

 of the soldiers fell through the excessive heat. All the rest of 

 the day I was rather dead than alive through the fatigue of 

 preaching ; symptoms of consumption appear every Lord's Day. 



20. Major-Greneral St. Leger, who commands this station and 

 all the stations in the outer provinces, arrived from his expedi- 

 tion against the Seiks. I talked to him about having a church. 



21. Sunday, preached to H.M. 8th Light Dragoons. 

 22-27. Constantly ill, a headache without intermission, day 



and night. 



28. Sunday, preached to the Artillery ; afterwards at head- 

 quarters, on the New hirth. It was a novel subject to the 

 general and his staff. I should not have opened with this, if 

 the day (Trinity Sunday) had not given occasion to it. 



29. Began with Sabat the Arabic version of the Scriptures. 



June 3. Julio, the Italian Monk, who had been ordered to 

 Lucknow just at the time I was sent here, arrived. Captain 

 •and Mrs. Sherwood of 53rd (both believers) dined with us. It 

 was an odd party — one English protestant clergyman, one 

 officer, one lady, one Arabian converted Mahometan, one 

 Italian catholic monk, and one Indian. 



4. Sunday, preached at head quarters on the " Rich man and 

 Lazarus." 



11. Sunday, preached to the 53rd. 



12. Dined at the mess of the 8th Light Dragoons, a feast given 

 in honor of the general's return, to which I was invited as one 

 of the staff. They called for songs and I retreated, — the time 

 past of our lives may suffice, Sfc. 



18. Preached to the Dragoons. 



19. Went to the city of Lucknow, about 50 miles distant. The 

 Nabob sent a guard of horse for me, as it is dangerous to travel 

 in his country alone. The Nabob of Oude is absolute, and has 

 the power of life and death, but the British Resident at his court 

 controls him. The Resident received me kindly, and entertained 

 me hospitably at his house several daj^s. The Resident lives in 

 ^reat state, never moves out without four and twenty attendants 

 before and behind. 



