You approach Allahabad by a very long one.

It was now carrying us across the bed of the Jumna, a bed which did not seem to have been slept in for one while or more.

It wasn't all river-bed--most of it was overflow ground.
Allahabad means "City of God." I get this from the books.

From a printed curiosity--a letter written by one of those brave and confident Hindoo strugglers with the English tongue, called a "babu"-- I got a more compressed translation: "Godville." It is perfectly correct, but that is the most that can be said for it.
We arrived in the forenoon, and short-handed; for Satan got left behind somewhere that morning, and did not overtake us until after nightfall.
It seemed very peaceful without him.

The world seemed asleep and dreaming.
I did not see the native town, I think.