They bold the Nazim’s bond for the eighty thousand rupees, borrowed only eight days before his murder.

December 17, 1849.—­Five miles to the left bank of the Ghagra, whence crossed over to Fyzabad, on platformed boats, prepared for the purpose by the Oude authorities.  Our tents are in one of the large mango-groves, which are numerous on the right bank of the river, but scanty on the opposite bank.  From the time we crossed this river at Byram-ghaut on the 5th, till we recrossed it this morning, we were moving in the jurisdiction of the Nazim of the Gonda and Bahraetch district.  After recrossing the Ghagra we came within that of the Nazim of Sultanpoor, Aga Allee, who was appointed to it this year, not as a contractor, but manager, under the Durbar.  The districts under contractors are called ijara, or farmed districts; those under the management of non-contracting servants of Government are called amanee, or districts under the amanut, or trust of Government officers.  The morning was fine, the sky clear, and the ground covered with hoar frost.  It was, pleasing to see so large a camp, passing without noise, inconvenience, or disorder of any kind in so large a river.

The platformed boats were numerous, and so were the pier-heads prepared on both sides, for the convenience of embarking and landing.  Carriages, horses, palankeens, camels and troops, all passed without the slightest difficulty.  The elephants were preparing to cross, some in boats and some by swimming, as might seem to them best.  Some refuse to swim, and others to enter boats, and some refuse to do either; but the fault is generally with their drivers.  On the present occasion, two or three remained behind, one plunged into the stream from his boat, in the middle of the river, with his driver on his back, and both disappeared for a time, but neither was hurt.  Those that remained on the left bank, got tired of their solitude, and were at last coaxed over, either in boats or in the water.

The Sarjoo rejoins the Ghagra a little above Fyzabad, and the united stream takes the old name of the Sarjoo.  This is the name the river bears, till it emerges from the Tarae forest, when the large body takes that of the Ghagra, and the small stream, which it throws off, or which perhaps flows in the old bed, retains that of the Sarjoo.  The large branch absorbs the Kooreeala, Chouka, and other small streams, on its way to rejoin the smaller.  Some distance below Fyzabad, the river takes the name of Dewa; and uniting, afterwards, with the Gunduck, flows into the Ganges.  Fyzabad is three miles above Ajoodheea, on the same bank of the river.  It was founded by the first rulers of the reigning family, and called for some time Bungalow, from a bungalow which they built on the verge of the stream.  Asuf-od Dowlah disliked living near his mother, after he came to the throne, and he settled at Lucknow, then a small village on the right bank of the Goomtee river.  This village, in the course of eighty years, grown into a city, containing nearly a million of souls.  Fyzabad has declined almost in the same proportion.