All Sir Colin could then say was that the troops should be removed outside Lucknow as soon as the women and children had been brought away, and he expressed his 'thankfulness that the relief of the garrison had been accomplished.' [Illustration: MAJOR-GENERAL SIR JAMES OUTRAM, G.C.B.
_From a painting by Thomas Brigstocke, R.A._] Norman and I obtained permission to accompany Outram and Havelock back to the Residency.

It was intensely but painfully interesting to visit this scene of so many acts of heroism, and of so much suffering endured with unexampled fortitude.

We first went to the posts occupied by Havelock's force in the Chatta Manzil, and in other buildings which have long since disappeared.

At one of these we stopped to watch the Artillery trying to silence the enemy's guns on the opposite side of the river.

We talked to the men, who were keen to hear news from the outer world and the story of our advance.