. William H. Seward's travels around the world. d30 J ?? 386 BRITISH INDIA. Military and Civil Service Club of the Northwestern Provinces,and the zealous American missionaries residing here. Cawnpore, March 20th.—Lady Muir accompanied us to ourcar at one oclock this morning. We rode through ripening wheat-fields, and reached the town on the south side of the Ganges atsunrise. We write these notes while crossing that river on a pon-toon bridge, a form especially adapted to rivers like this, which aresubject to immense freshets and floods. Luchiow, March 21st.—We came forty miles to this city, t
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. d30 J ?? 386 BRITISH INDIA. Military and Civil Service Club of the Northwestern Provinces,and the zealous American missionaries residing here. Cawnpore, March 20th.—Lady Muir accompanied us to ourcar at one oclock this morning. We rode through ripening wheat-fields, and reached the town on the south side of the Ganges atsunrise. We write these notes while crossing that river on a pon-toon bridge, a form especially adapted to rivers like this, which aresubject to immense freshets and floods. Luchiow, March 21st.—We came forty miles to this city, thecapital of the once independent but now nominal kingdom ofOude, over a branch of the East India Railway, and through thevalley of the Goomty, a tributary of the Ganges. The soil, oftenand severely swept by deluges, is poor. We are guests here ofGeneral Barrow, now Commissioner (that is to say, Lieutenant-Governor) of Oude. With an area half as large as that of the Stateof New York, Oude has a population of three millions. Its ancient. • ??7,1 ~y#«- RESIDENCY AT LUCKKOW. LUCKNOW AND AGRA. 387 Mogul capital, which in our maps bears the name of Oude, is nowcalled Fyzabad. Lucknow has enjoyed that distinction one hun-dred and twenty years, and now contains half a million of inhab-itants. It is doubtless true that Great Britain owes her empire inIndia more to the dissension of its native rulers than to the forceof arms. We have already seen enough of the country to knowthat the causes of those dissensions were, like the divisions among;our aboriginal tribes, deep and lasting. The Bramin religion,where it was universal, had no effect to produce unity among thetribal communities dispersed over vast territory, and renderedirreconcilable by diversity of climate, race, and language. TheTartars or Scythians, border nations on the North, continually in-truded, producing alienation between the Hindoo communities,while the conquering Mohammedans, by an arrogant rule, op-pressed and
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