ROUTE TO LUCKNOW 
131 
enjoyed a perfect ablution. Soon afterwards Mr. Salt arrived. We 
took an early cold dinner, and at two I set off for Lucknow, distant 
sixty miles. The bearers were excellent, but at the last stage Mr, 
Paul had placed his own servants, who, with a rapidity that asto- 
nished me, brought me to his house by half past six on the morning 
of the ^Ist of March, precisely one month after my leaving 
Calcutta. 
VOL. I, 
s 
