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From Pall Mall to the Punjab Or With the Prince in India

1876

When darkness comes on and the lamps are lit when the coloured fires burn in the courts of the temples and the light is reflected frolia house to house by the burnished metal work for which streets in Ilombay are famous the sight is magnificent in the extreme ; even now in the daytime it is marvellous to the unaccustomed eye. [...] Yet when the ear once became accustomed to the strange thumping'of the drum the harsh noises drawn by the bows of the players from the hurdy-gurdies the shaking of the tambourine and the jingling of little bells which the girls wore on their ankles and wrists it was after all by no means an unpleasant sound. [...] He is a stately little fellow this Maharajah only thirteen years old though he may be ; and he stops at the edge of the carpet till the Viceroy reaches it with all the dignity of a great sovreign takes his place in the chair of honour as though it were the throne of Southern India and converses with the Viceroy with all the affability and ease of an accoplished man of the world. [...] Men of the body-guard stiffen in position the viceregal suite is in its place and the Viceroy is already past the middle of the carpet ere the little Prince is through the doorway. [...] Then the chiefs stood round the hall the Maharana advanced to the Vieerty's carriage and taking his Excellency by the right hand led him to a couch at the head of the saloon and gave him the seat of honour as to a superior monarch.
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Pages
415
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142593
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-viii J. Drew Gay view
Chapter I First Impressions of Bombay
1-11 unknown view
Chapter II Social Life in Bombay
12-22 unknown view
Chapter III Receptions of Rajaiis
23-40 unknown view
Chapter IV The Arrival of Tile Prince
41-51 unknown view
Chapter V Royal Fetes
52-72 unknown view
Chapter VI Life in Poona
73-83 unknown view
Chapter VII Games and Sports at Baroda
84-102 unknown view
Chapter VIII The Voyage to ceylon
103-118 unknown view
Chapter IX Cingalese Fairy Land
119-124 unknown view
Chapter X Kandyan Curiosities
125-139 unknown view
Chapter XI The Veddahs of Ceylon
140-145 unknown view
Chapter XII The Sacred Tooth
146-150 unknown view
Chapter XIII A Week in Madras
151-174 unknown view
Chapter XIV Indian Amusements
175-182 unknown view
Chapter XV The Prince in Bengal
183-191 unknown view
Chapter XVI Sunday in Calcutta
192-198 unknown view
Chapter XVII Polo—Playing and Snake—Charming
199-208 unknown view
Chapter XVIII A Captive King
209-215 unknown view
Chapter XIX Life in Calcutta
216-224 unknown view
Chapter XX Knight Making
225-236 unknown view
Chapter XXI The Sacred City of Benares
237-244 unknown view
Chapter XXII A Levee of the Brave
245-260 unknown view
Chapter XXIII A Review at Delhi
261-270 unknown view
Chapter XXIV The Battle on the Ridge
271-279 unknown view
Chapter XXV Feats sof Skill and Strength
280-286 unknown view
Chapter XXVI Jummoo the Magnificent
287-296 unknown view
Chapter XXVII Sport in Cashmere
297-307 unknown view
Chapter XXVIII Akbar’s Capital
308-313 unknown view
Chapter XXIX A Tomb and a Tower
314-324 unknown view
Chapter XXX Native Courts and Prisons
325-333 unknown view
Chapter XXXI An Eastern Paris
334-346 unknown view
Chapter XXXII Tiger Shooting and a Durbar
347-356 unknown view
Chapter XXXIII Scindia’s Welcome
357-367 unknown view
Chapter XXXIV Scenes in Gwalior
368-377 unknown view
Chapter XXXV Hunting in the Jungle
378-382 unknown view
Chapter XXXVI Allahabad and its Sights
383-388 unknown view
Chapter XXXVII English Life in the Hills
389-i unknown view

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