This road has lately been completed under the superintendence of Lient.

G.Sim of the engineers, and cost above two lacs of rupees.
The minister came out with a very large cortege yesterday to see and talk with me, and is to stay here to-day.

I met him this morning on his way out to shoot in the lake; and it was amusing to see his enormous train contrasted with my small one.

I told him, to the amusement of all around, that an English gentleman would rather get no air or shooting at all than seek them in such a crowd.

The minister was last night to have received the Rajahs and other great landholders, who had come to my camp, but they told me this morning that they had some of them waited all night in vain for an audience; that the money demanded by his followers, of various sorts and grades, for such a privilege was much more than they could pay; that to see and talk with a prime minister of Oude was one of the most difficult and expensive of things.