Identifier: indianpicturespr00malc (find matches)
Title: Indian pictures and problems
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Malcolm, Ian, Sir, 1868-1944
Subjects: India -- Description and travel Burma -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : E. Grant Richard
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s of the beleaguered garrison in 1857. Yet he wears upon his coat that precious decoration which tells of hardship unspeakable and of victory won when he was but a schoolboy in the College of La Martiniere. To go through Lucknow with Mr. Hilton is to live through those tragic days oneself. He can point out the site of the old church in cantonments where, on Saturday evening, the 30th of May,1857, he and his fellow choristers were practising the Magnificat, when suddenly the trumpets sounded the alarm and the choir practice was silenced for ever. In his Guide to Lucknow, which, for facts and maps and stirring narrative, is invaluable to the visitor to that city, he tells the story of his return with other boys to the College; of the native cavalry soldier who bade them surrender themselves as his prisoners, but whose horse declined to approach their elephants and thus enable him to enforce compliance with his order; of their safe arrival at La Martiniere and the view of the cantonments they had lately 78
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LUCKNOW, PAST AND PRESENT left—now all ablaze. After this the College was set in order for defence, and none too soon; for a serious skirmish took place in its playing-fields within the next few days, and matters became so grave that the whole school was summoned by Sir Henry Lawrence to share the protection of the Residency. It is difficult to follow, even with such a guide, the road then taken; for the crowded streets of native dwellings and bazaars are now razed to the ground, and not a trace of them exists. But, once within the sacred precincts of the Residency, there is not a wall or a pillar or a gateway whose stones cannot preach their sermon to us who come after, a story written in letters of fire upon Mr. Hiltons brain. As we enter the grounds, at Baillies Guard Gate, riven and riddled by shot and shell, he shows us the embrasure for Aitkens death-dealing gun, and the spot where he and his youthful companion were surprised by an officer asleep at their post, Soldier all day and sentinel all t

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