Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . CHAPTEK XIX. IN THE COUNTRY OF THE GREAT MUTINY. Across Northern India by Rail — In an Indian Sleeping Car — Scenes fromour Car Window — Storks and Penguins, Monkeys and Jackals— Itis a Beautiful Morning ; Come, Let Us Kill Something — Defiling aPeddlers Sweetmeats — A Work of Patience and Diplomacy — AnEvery Day Conversation in India — The Mecca of the Brahmins — TheMonkey Temple — Cawnpore of Bloody Memory — An Awful Page ofHistory — The Angel of Remembrance — Memories of Lucknow —The Gallant L
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . CHAPTEK XIX. IN THE COUNTRY OF THE GREAT MUTINY. Across Northern India by Rail — In an Indian Sleeping Car — Scenes fromour Car Window — Storks and Penguins, Monkeys and Jackals— Itis a Beautiful Morning ; Come, Let Us Kill Something — Defiling aPeddlers Sweetmeats — A Work of Patience and Diplomacy — AnEvery Day Conversation in India — The Mecca of the Brahmins — TheMonkey Temple — Cawnpore of Bloody Memory — An Awful Page ofHistory — The Angel of Remembrance — Memories of Lucknow —The Gallant Lawrence — Havelocks Troops to the Rescue — TheHeros Grave — The Cannon Ball that Robbed the Mother of Her Babe— The City of the Taj Mahal — The Moguls Promise and How HeKept It—In Memory of an Immortal Love — The Hand of theVandal—Jane Higginbottom in the Taj—How the Old KingPlayed |ROM Calcutta to Bombay, as thecrow flies, is not much more thana thousand miles, but by the waythat most travelers journey it isfully twice that distance, since aconsiderable detour must be madeto take in the historic cities ofBenares. Allahabad, Lucknow,Cawnpore, and Agra. It is a journey well worth tak-ing, I assure you, dear reader, forit leaves upon the memory ofevery traveler indelible photographs of marvelous templesand incomparable mausoleums; of fortresses and battlegrounds, made sacred by the blood of heroic men andwomen; besides many more peaceful pictures of smiling (353) 354 THE RAILWAYS OF NORTHERN INDIA. fields and thronging villages, and gaily dressed crowds ofpeople that are constantly moving in a kaleidoscopic wayacross our picture. The railway train in which we set forth, like all Indianrailway trains, is divided into first, second, and third-classcompartments, with an intermediate class corresponding tothe third-class, for European travelers only. The fares areexce
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