The Head-Quarters camp had, therefore, been formed at Jullundur, and thither we proceeded when the gathering at Allahabad had dispersed.

We had but just arrived, when we were shocked and grieved beyond measure to hear of Lady Canning's death.

Instead of accompanying the Viceroy to Allahabad she had gone to Darjeeling, and on her return, anxious to make sketches of the beautiful jungle scenery, she arranged, alas! contrary to the advice of those with her, to spend one night in the _terai_,[4] where she contracted jungle-fever, to which she succumbed ten days after her return to Calcutta.

Her death was a real personal sorrow to all who had the privilege of knowing her; what must it have been to her husband, returning to England without the helpmate who had shared and lightened the burden of his anxieties, and gloried in the success which crowned his eventful career in India.
The Commander-in-Chief arrived in the middle of November, and all the officers of the Head-Quarters camp went out to meet him.

I was mounted on a spirited nutmeg-gray Arab, a present from Allgood.