He spared himself no trouble.

On the hottest day he would toil through barrack after barrack to satisfy himself that the soldiers were properly cared for; Europeans and Natives were equally attended to, and many measures conducive to the men's comfort date from the time he was in command in India.
At the close of this camp Lumsden, who had returned to his appointment from Hyderabad, gave up the Quartermaster-Generalship for good.

We had been greatly thrown together during the twenty-one years I had been in India, and my wife and I were very sorry to bid farewell to him and Mrs.Lumsden.He was succeeded by Edwin Johnson, pending whose arrival I was now allowed to officiate.
From Lawrencepur I went with the Commander-in-Chief to Calcutta.

Soon after we arrived there I was asked by Sir Douglas Forsyth to accompany him on his Mission to Yarkand and Kashgar.

I should have much liked to have done so, for the idea of a trip to these, at that time unknown, regions possessed great fascinations for me.