or for the purpose of sharing in their pay; and, under the deductions and other disadvantages to which they are liable, he could get no good men to enlist.  The corps, in consequence, has a wretched appearance, and certainly could not be made formidable to an enemy.  The “Akbery” is one of the Telinga corps of infantry, and was intended to be, in all things, like those of Captains Barlow, Bunbury, and Magness; but Imdad Hoseyn told me that they had a certain weight at Court, which secured for their regiments many advantages necessary to make the corps efficient, while he had none:  that they had occasional intercourse with the Resident, and were all at Court for some months in the year to make friends, while he was always detached.

January 14, 1850.—­Halted at Russoolabad, for our second set of tents, which did not come up till night, when it was too late to send them on to our next ground.  We have two sets of sleeping and dining tents—­one to go on and the other to remain during the night—­but only one set of office tents.  They are struck in the afternoon, when the office duties of the day are over, and are ready by the time we reach our ground the next morning.  This is the way in which all public functionaries march in India.  Almost all officers who have revenue charges march through the districts under their jurisdiction during the cold season, and so do many political officers who have control over more than one native principality.  I have had charges that require such moving ever since the year 1822, or for some twenty-eight years; and with the exception of two intervals of absence on medical certificate in 1826 and 1836, I have been every cold season moving in the way I describe.

No Resident at the Court of Lucknow ever before moved, over the country as I am doing to inquire into the condition of the people, the state of the country, and character of the administration; nor would it be desirable for them to do so unless trained to civil business, and able and disposed to commune freely with the people of all classes.  The advantages would hardly counterbalance the disadvantages.  When I apologize to the peasantry for the unavoidable trespasses of my camp, they always reply good-humouredly, “The losses we suffer from them are small and temporary, while the good we hope from your visit is great and permanent.”  Would that I could realize the hopes to which my visit gives rise.

January 15, 1850.—­To Meeangunge, five miles, over a plain of good doomuteea soil, well studded with trees; but much of the land lies waste, and many of the villages and hamlets are unoccupied and in ruins.  We passed the boundary of the Russoolabad district, about two miles from our last ground, and crossed into that of Meeangunge or Safeepoor.  The Russoolabad district was held in contract for some years by one of the greatest knaves in Oude, Buksh Allee, a dome by caste, whose rise to wealth and influence may be described as illustrative of the manners and