One thing I can say with confidence. No one who makes a winter
journey to that land of sunshine and snow, with its energetic,
pleasant, and hospitable inhabitants, will ever regret it, and the
wayfarer will return home with the consciousness of having been in
contact with an intensely virile race, only now beginning to
realise its own strength.
CHAPTER X
Calcutta--Hooghly pilots--Government House--A Durbar--The sulky
Rajah--The customary formalities--An ingenious interpreter--The
sailing clippers in the Hooghly-Calcutta Cathedral--A succulent
banquet--The mistaken Ministre--The "Gordons"--Barrackpore--A
Swiss Family Robinson aerial house--The child and the elephants--
The merry midshipmen--Some of their escapades--A huge haul of
fishes--Queen Victoria and Hindustani--The Hills--The Manipur
outbreak--A riding tour--A wise old Anglo-Indian--Incidents--The
fidelity of native servants--A novel printing-press--Lucknow--The
loss of an illusion.
Lord Lansdowne had in 1888 been transferred from Canada to India,
and in May of that year he left Ottawa for Calcutta, taking on the
way a three months' well-earned holiday in England.
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