February 6 Thursday – The Clemens party left Benares at 1:28 p.m. [NB 36 TS 39]. It was a seventeen and a half hour train ride from Benares to Calcutta. Parsons writes,

He was pleased with his car, which possessed not one iota of an American sleeper’s “luxury and magnificence,” yet was more comfortable with “plenty of air, and a night’s rest” ahead. But when he reached Macaulay’s “city of palaces” and British supremacy, he kept to his room in the Hotel Continental for about thirty hours with a cold picked up on the train [“MT India” 85].