Housing the Colonel in Lucknow (Or Laknau)
"Colonel Martin's other residence . . . is a palace on a very extensive scale, but in which the singularity of the Colonel's taste is chiefly discernible. .
. . Under the principal apartment are subterraneous rooms, intended for the hot season. This plan of living underground during the hot months being quite experimental, it would perhaps have been more reasonable to make the trial on a less expensive scale. The heat and smoke and smell, arising from the number of lamps necessary to light the dark chambers and passages, seemed alone sufficient to render the success of the scheme more than doubtful. In the middle of the largest of these dark rooms the Colonel had already raised his tomb, and the number of lights to be burned there, night and day, for ever, and the sum to be allotted for this purpose, were already mentioned."
Source: Thomas Twining, Travels in India, a Hundred Years Ago, with a Visit to the United States (1792), as quoted in The Sahibs (1948), edited by Hilton Brown. London: William Hodge & Co., 238.
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