A camp site for the railway engineer of the East Indian Railway Company with staff preparing food and tending animals. Wood engraving after E. Braddon, 1857.

"The Engineer's camp shows that the engineer has often of necessity to lead a nomadic life: the tent under a tree, then horses tied to a bamboo in the open air, the bullocks released from the "hackeray" ... the goat which gives the morning milk ... But with a vertical sun pouring his rays through tree and canvas -- a brick wall won't stop them; with the thermometer at 110 deg., and the perspiration pouring in torrents from him, the engineer scarcely appreciates his tented life ..."-- Illustrated London news, loc. cit. At the time the East Indian Railway was being built from Calcutta to Allahabad