Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . A%- ?^%. FAKIR, INDIA. of their bronze-faced retinues. These were also richly dressed; the finest feathers were pinnedto their turbans with diamonds, which gleamed in the throng like so many resplendent reception committee had strewn with the rarest tropical flowers the walk on whichthe Prince was to pass from the landing to his carriage; while a bower of evergreen, gar-landed with beautiful scarlet blossoms, was to shield his royal person from the rays of th
Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . A%- ?^%. FAKIR, INDIA. of their bronze-faced retinues. These were also richly dressed; the finest feathers were pinnedto their turbans with diamonds, which gleamed in the throng like so many resplendent reception committee had strewn with the rarest tropical flowers the walk on whichthe Prince was to pass from the landing to his carriage; while a bower of evergreen, gar-landed with beautiful scarlet blossoms, was to shield his royal person from the rays of thesun. The moment had come when his feet first pressed the soil of India, and the cannonfrom a hundred ships and the naval fortifications welcomed him with hoarse-throated thun-ders, which caused the earth to quake, and filled the air with trembling, while great, hot col-umns of smoke rolled into the sky from land and sea. The occasion and its attendant pomp KECErriON OF THE IKIXCE OF WALES. 87 and circumstance were replete with exhibitions of human power and grandeur, and weregreatly enhanced by the presence of the nati\e royalty
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