My wife and her baby remained at Simla with our friends the Donald Stewarts, and I left her feeling sure that with them she would be happy and well taken care of.
Sir Hugh Rose was at Allahabad, and as I passed through that place I availed myself of the opportunity to pay my respects to the new Chief, being anxious to meet an officer whom I had held in great admiration from the time when, as _Charge d'affaires_ at Constantinople, his pluck and foresight practically saved Turkey in her time of peril from Russia's threatened attack--admiration increased by the masterly manner in which he had conducted the Central India campaign, in spite of almost overwhelming difficulties from want of transport and other causes, and a severe attack of sunstroke, which would have incapacitated many men.

Sir Hugh Rose, when I first met him at Allahabad, was fifty-nine years of age, tall, slight, with refined features, rather delicate-looking, and possessing a distinctly distinguished appearance.

He received me most kindly, and told me that he wished me to return to Head-Quarters when the Viceroy could dispense with my services.
The camp this year was by no means on so grand a scale as the preceding one.

The escort was much smaller, and the Commander-in-Chief with Army Head-Quarters did not march with us as on the previous occasion.
Lord and Lady Canning arrived by steamer at Benares on the 6th November, and I went on board to meet them.

Lord Canning was cordial and pleasant as usual, but I did not think he looked well.