Modern Review August 1908

For it is only they who will have the patience the faith the "eyes to see" and the "ears to hear " to lead them unshaken in practical devotion to thine principles through the long years of childhood with the intervals of apparent failure the hostile criticism of friends the difficulty of reconcilement with"THE MONOPOLIES OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY 95 established rules and conventions and the [...] They determined upon contining it for another year wisely increasing the duties to be paid to the Company to such an amount as might tempt the Board of Control to consent to the continuance of the system for they well knew that the objection of the Directors proceeded not from any moral scruples but from the fear of the total extinction of the Company's revenues by too rapacious a treatment [...] In consequence of the repeated orders of the Court of Directors the Governor and Council in Calcutta issued a proclamation in February 1767 encouraging the natives to make salt ; and upon the faith of this ordir many of them engaged in the busness particularly in the woods where it was made on low grounds annually washed by the Ganges during the rainy season. [...] They struck upon the face of the fall staiing it and the clouds of mist that hung above to a hundred glorious hues; indeed the sustance of the foaming waters seemed to be interlaced with rainbows whereof the arch reached their crest and the feet were lost in the sullen blackness of the pool beneath. [...] Then accompanied by the creeping Jeeki and the train of prostrate priests he marched up the long hall to the edge of the dais and there stood still and bowed to the woman in the chair.