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The city of Cawnpore lies off at your left and ahead, along this bank of the Ganges. That iron railroad bridge you see crossing the river in distance takes trains on their way to Lucknow, sixty miles distant at your right (N.E.) This ruined temple to the god Shiva (do you see the bullet marks in its walls?) is one where Hindoo devotees used to come for ceremonial bathing. It encloses an old stone staircase or "ghat" leading down into the sacred river. The men you see over yonder on the bank are dhobies (washermen) who do the laundry work of the town, pounding the linen with stones and drying it by spreading it out in the sun. The bullock with the cord through his nostrils is used like a cart-horse.

In the summer of 1857, during the great Mutiny, there were about a thousand British people here in Cawnpore, half the number being women and children. A few natives remained loyal through everything, but most of them caught the prevailing fury for destruction and murder.

After several weeks of hard fighting to protect the women and children crowded into weak entrenchments, the British received from Nana Sahib an offer of safe conduct down the river and out of the district if they would abandon the place. This they agreed to do, and one June morning all that were left of the original thousand (less than half that number) came down here to this spot on the river bank and entered the waiting boats provided for the purpose. When they were all gathered in the boats a signal was sounded. Native soldiers on this bank shouldered their guns and fired volley after volley into the boats.

It was the middle of July before Havelock reached here, and then it was too late. Not a man, woman, or child of British blood was found alive.

(See Frazer's "Story of British India" and other Histories. Read also Mrs. F. A. Steele's "On the face of the Waters.")

From Notes of Travel, No. 9, copyright, by Underwood & Underwood.

"Massacre Ghat", scene of death during the Mutiny, Cawnpore, India.

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"Massacre Ghat" Schaupla eines Gemekels wahrend der Meuterei,Cawnpore,Indien.

"Massacre Ghat", Escena de muerete durante el motíu, Cawnpore, India.

Skådeplatsen för blodbad under mysteriet i Cawnpore, Indien.

Сцена смерти на полѣ возстанія, Каунпоръ, Индія.