. The life and correspondence of the Right Hon. Sir Bartle Frere, bart. t think thatsome public religious service or notice of our presentposition is called for in addition to the Prayer in time ofWar and Tumult? If it had no other visible effect, Icannot but think that it might allay the panic so dis- i§57.] DISTRESS AMONG EUROPEANS. 223 graceful to us in every way which seems to prevail inevery place. When Frere started on his cold weather tour late in theautumn of 1857, he left directions for Government Houseto be placed at the disposal of any European ladies orinvalids who might be coming
. The life and correspondence of the Right Hon. Sir Bartle Frere, bart. t think thatsome public religious service or notice of our presentposition is called for in addition to the Prayer in time ofWar and Tumult? If it had no other visible effect, Icannot but think that it might allay the panic so dis- i§57.] DISTRESS AMONG EUROPEANS. 223 graceful to us in every way which seems to prevail inevery place. When Frere started on his cold weather tour late in theautumn of 1857, he left directions for Government Houseto be placed at the disposal of any European ladies orinvalids who might be coming down from up the countryand passing through Kurrachee. His carriages and horses,also, were left for their use. Many a feeble invalid anddesolate widow homeward bound, often impoverished orruined, was glad of such a resting-place, and his housewas occupied all the time he was away. To be able tooffer such hospitality was then, as always, especiallycongenial to him, and then, as always, it made heavycalls upon his purse. To him high office was never asource of WRESSEL LODGE, WIMBLEDON. CHAPTER VII. THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER. General exhaustion—Malcolm Greens campaign —Macauleys cam-paign—The Khan of Kelat—Quetta—Major H. Greens expedi-tion against the Murrees—Recovery of Major Clibborns guns—Death of Jacob. When September was over, not only in Sind, but all overIndia, men began to breathe more freely. Delhi had atlast fallen. The garrison at Lucknow, though not yetdelivered, had been reinforced. The summer heat, whichin the burning plains had been so terrible an additionto the toils and sufferings of the campaign, was nownearly over, and the approaching cool season would givethe Europeans their opportunity. Troops were coming infast from England, though not faster than they wereneeded, for there was much hard fighting to be done formany a month to come. The great strain, mental andbodily, which men had undergone had left them weariedand exhausted, if not dem
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