February 25 Tuesday – The Clemens party left Lucknow and traveled some 40 miles southwest to Kanpur (Cawnpore). Parsons writes,

Revising the direction of the relief marches to Lucknow, Mark traveled forty miles southwest to Cawnpore. There he reverently visited the temple to Siva from which the bugle signal of ambush came, the Slaughter Ghat [stairway] where the surrendered garrison was shot down as it embarked in Ganges barges for Allahabad under Nana Sahib’s promise of safe conduct, and the well into which women and children were “cast, the dying with the dead”as the inscription reads — on July 15, 1857 [“MT India” 90-1].

Sam’s notebook: 25th & 26th . Cawnpore. Guests of Lt. Col. P. Baddeley [NB 36 TS 52].

Sam gave his “At Home” lecture in Kanpur at 9:30 p.m. [Ahluwalia 17].