The inscription on the reverse of the watercolour reads 'The bakery is situated in a room built against the outer wall of the fort. A view of three rooms runs round their wall, built of mud; long irregular poles over which are laid matting and palur leaves support the nearly flat mud roof. The oven this is built of mud over an iron ribbed framework, fitting together in pieces so as to be easily carried. It is built in a small open room. The door, over which hangs a cloth, gives access to the kneeding room shown in the other sketch. The oven having been previously heated and cleaned out, the loaves are put in. Now the active part of the work being over, our head baker has leisure to enjoy a pull at his brilliantly coloured 'hubble bubble' while his assistant fans, with one of the small tin plates for the loaves. A room is seen on the right with the doorway half closed by a piece of matting through which we get a glimpse of a native sitting before his food. A hospital doolie bearer (known by the red cross on his arm) works at a pile of mud on the left not being required for his proper work, and there being plenty of clearing up and repairing still to be done in the fort. A small basket for carrying earth lies at his feet. Some ready baked loaves are on a cloth in front of the oven