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Oue Viceregal Life in India Selections from My Journal 1884-1888

1889

We moved slowly up the river looking at the picturesque buildings the temples and6the great flights of steps and the quantities of boats and the crowds of people bathing and fetching water and carring on their avocations on the banks of the river. [...] At the Town Hall were collected specimens of the various manufactures of Benares and in a Shamiana outside we saw the people working at their trades ; we drove to the entrance of the bazaars and getting out of the carriage walked all through the narrow streets. [...] The Massacre Ghat looks peaceful and pretty now but oi4e could see the ravine down which the victims toiled in the hot sun and could imagine the boats grounding on the sand and the treachery that awaited them at the water's edge. [...] D. had not seen it before and he enjoyed the ride and the holiday and the nice open look it has and the view of the Sutlej. [...] And so we did ! All the morning we were bustling about A last large contribution arrived for the Fish Pond and had to be tied up ; the Shamianas on the lawn had to be set up; the Photograph Table spread and its goods priced ; the Café Chantant hung with advertisements and all the little tae-a-tete tables arranged in it ; the Raffles had all to be planned ; the Theatre to be put in order and i
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Pages
352
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United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142398
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Frontmatter
i-v Ava Dufferin view
Chapter VIII. Spring and Summer 1886 March 9 to October 24
1-56 unknown view
Chapter IX. Autumn Tour 1886 Lucknow Bombay Hyderabad Mysore October 25 to December 15
57-98 unknown view
Chapter X. Calcutta 1886-7 December 15 1886 to March 15 1887
99-129 unknown view
Chapter XI. Darjeeling and Dehra dun March 16 to April 23 1887
130-169 unknown view
Chapter XII. Simla 1887 April 24 to November 2
170-194 unknown view
Chapter XIII. Our Autumn tour 1887- Kapurthalla Karachi the N.-W. Frontier and Lahore November 3 to December 15
195-236 unknown view
Chapter XIV. Calcutta December 17 1887 to March 28 1888
237-278 unknown view
Chapter XV. Simla 1888 March 29 to November 12
279-319 unknown view
Chapter XVI. Our List tour in India November 13 to December 14 1888
320-i unknown view

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