had never seen any stranger sight than the tourist in his white dress and dust-coloured helmet, or heard any sounds more wild and maddening than the chirping of the grasshoppers, and the lowing of the belated cattle as they stray homeward to their stalls. Not urn, nor monolith, nor broken column is so fit a monument for brave men as the crumbling breastwork and the battered wall. And in like manner the dire agony of Cawnpore needs not to be figured in marble, or cut into granite, or cast of bronze. There is no fear lest we should forget the story of our people. The whole place is their tomb, and the name thereof is their epitaph. When the traveller from Allahabad, rousing himself to learn at what stage of his journey he may have arrived, is aware of a voice proclaiming through the darkness the city of melancholy fame,--then those accents, heard for the first time on the very spot itself which they designate, recall, more vividly than written or engraven eloquence, the memory of fruitless valour and unutterable woe. FOOTNOTES: [5] Napier's "History of the War in the Peninsula." Book xx. Chapter iv. THE END. R. CLAY, SON, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS, BREAD STREET HILL. Transcriber's Notes Obvious punctuation errors repaired. Inconsistent hyphenation fixed. P. 8: into the vernadah -> into the verandah. P. 24: insolence and green -> insolence and greed. P. 26: A battalian on march -> A battalion on march. P. 50: paid to this delaration -> paid to this declaration. P. 65: prophet seem to have been -> prophet seems to have been. P. 80: their commander had adoped -> their commander had adopted. P. 84: worst was beter -> worst was better. P. 116: made night hideous -> made the night hideous. P. 119: coat of white paster -> coat of white plaster. P. 124: day week -> day. P. 139: what they lake in energy -> what they lack in energy. P. 172: We have been connonaded -> We have been cannonaded. P. 215: our people though -> our people thought. P. 236: hord of mutineers -> horde of mutineers. P. 237: such an autcry -> such an outcry. P. 291: Bramhin -> Brahmin. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Cawnpore, by G. O. Trevelyan