180 FUTTY GUNGE 
My own servant, and Gopinath. 
39 bearers. 
16 jemmadars, hircarrahs, kc. 
6 kijniutgars. 
^ seises. 
16 for cooking and taking care of sheep, kc, 
50 of his Excellency's servants with the tents and hakerys. 
10 with the elephants. 
14 bearers of Mr. Webb, and other servants. 
14 servants of Gopinath, and bearers. 
1^0 sepoys and followers. 
^87 Total. 
I took a friendly leave of Colonel Scott, and after an early dinner 
set off on an elephant for Futty Gunge, distant from Lucknow about 
five coss, or ten miles. Mr. Webb occupied another, and my servant 
a third ; the fourth was given up to my baggage and native servants. 
We got to our tents at Futty Gunge about seven o'clock, having 
passed through several wretched, half-deserted villages. Vizier 
Gunge consists only of the two gateways, and about three houses in 
the centre between them. It seems as if it had been built as an or- 
namental approach to Lucknow, a large avenue extending thither 
from it. It was never more than a single street. Futty Gunge itself 
is tolerably populous, built on the same plan; with a wall round 
it, but of trifling height, and the gates broken. The country through 
which we passed is perfectly flat, and sandy; now in many places 
covered with water, from a very heavy storm that fell just before 
we set out. We encamped half a mile beyond the town, on a flat, 
where puddles of water rendered the communication between one 
