. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. at constructed for him, in 1819, by an Englishengineer — the first steam-vessel known in India. The state-processions of the late king of Oude are described as rivallingthose of the Mogul emperors in the days of their glory ; and his court, onoccasions of ceremony, as presenting an almost equal display of barbaricsplendor. His state-carriage was of English construction, drawn by eightblack horses ; and his paulkee, a sort of throne, on which he sometimesappeared in processions, was of wro
. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. at constructed for him, in 1819, by an Englishengineer — the first steam-vessel known in India. The state-processions of the late king of Oude are described as rivallingthose of the Mogul emperors in the days of their glory ; and his court, onoccasions of ceremony, as presenting an almost equal display of barbaricsplendor. His state-carriage was of English construction, drawn by eightblack horses ; and his paulkee, a sort of throne, on which he sometimesappeared in processions, was of wrought-gold, and carried by bearers,habited in scarlet vests and fine turbans, profusely ornamented. The Mohammedan festivals are celebrated at Lucknow with great mag-nificence ; and the Europeans attached to the court are usually entertainedby his majesty with a combat of wild beasts, and a dinner in the Englishstyle, with the accompaniment of dances, performed by certain femaledancers — called, in India, nautch-girls — without whose presence, anentertainment would be considered dull and City of Lucknow. THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN. 541 CHAPTER XXV. THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN. As remarked at the close of a previous chapter, the usurpation of DostMohanimedVas the cause of the Afghan war, which was undertaken by theBritish governor-general with a view of restoring Siiah Sliuja to his exiled king, who had continued to reside at the British station of Loodi-aiia, two hundred miles north of Delhi, constantly occupied himself in vainattempts to recover his kingdom, while the ambition of Dost Mohammedsbrothers, and the successes of Runjeet Singh, kept the whole country in astate of anarchy. Kamran, the prince who had compassed the death ofFuiteh Khan, and was the bitterest enemy of Dost Mohammed, still retainedthe government of Herat, and having involved himself in a war with Persia,had increased the confusion, by bringing the Persians into Afghanistan. Tlii? war was
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