Futtehpore is an extensive Mahomedan city; it is in a lamentable state, and the ruins of tombs, mosques, houses, and walls lie spread over a very large space. It has been a civil station since 1826; and it also contains a very large gaol. On the third of May, I started for Arapore, a distance of sixteen miles, and proceeded the next morning to Lohunga seventeen miles off. I arrived at Kusseah on the 5th, after a ride of sixteen miles, and having rested till five o'clock in the afternoon, I commenced a long march, but halted for about half-an-hour at the Travellers' Bungalow at Koela, fifteen miles, to allay a burning thirst with some tea, and finally reached Berrill's Hotel at Allahabad at a quarter to one the next morning, being a distance of twenty-nine miles. Thus I rode the whole way from Lahore to Allahabad, a distance of at least 704 miles in fifty-four days, including the nine days I halted. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 65: Kanya, a damsel, and cubja, a spinal curve.] [Footnote 66: A work written by the command of Akbar. It contained a statement of the revenues of all the districts and towns, the amount of the troops, and the number under each commander.] [Footnote 67: Tyfeeah, "a band," or set of Natch girls.] [Footnote 68: Statistical Survey of Berar, p. 155, table xxx. Statistics, North-west Provinces. By A. Shakespear, Assistant Surveyor-General.] [Footnote 69: Shakespear's Statistics, North-west Provinces of India, table ii. p. 172.] [Footnote 70: Vide Oude, Parliamentary Papers.] [Footnote 71: See Appendix XX.] [Footnote 72: From _Campaô_, a Portuguese word, signifying an enclosure round a house, or bungalow.] CHAPTER XII. Allahabad--Pilgrimages--The River Jumna--Hurdwar--Akbar--Allum II.--Fortifications--Inscriptions on Column--Military Depôt--Lieut.-Colonel A. Abbott, C.B.--Colonel Kyd discovers a Cave--Ancient Palibothra--Arrian's Account--Megasthenes--Dr. Adams--Heeren--Chundragupta--Patna--The Sacred Rivers--Bhaugulpore--The Mandara Hill--The Chundun--Palibothra--Rajmahal--Antiquity of Kanoge--Allahabad--Extent of Asiatic Cities--Mahomedan Invasion--Extent of Hindoostan. THE hotel at which I took up my residence at Allahabad, was very pleasantly situated: my rooms faced the Jumna, whose clear blue water was most refreshing to the eye, the hotel standing on the right bank of that noble stream.