Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . ss Mulir II<A\ELI.\a l.\ IXDIA. al)scnt Princess/ (Jod bless our future King. It was altogether a day and a night neverto be forgotten l)y the jjeople of the Indian Empire; and as 1 looked ujjon its pageantry, andheard the multitude hail their future monarch, could not help thinking what a day that willbe, when the great Ruler of the universe, the Prince of Peace, shall come to claim His , tired in limb and weary in brain, we repaired to our beds, but far
Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . ss Mulir II<A\ELI.\a l.\ IXDIA. al)scnt Princess/ (Jod bless our future King. It was altogether a day and a night neverto be forgotten l)y the jjeople of the Indian Empire; and as 1 looked ujjon its pageantry, andheard the multitude hail their future monarch, could not help thinking what a day that willbe, when the great Ruler of the universe, the Prince of Peace, shall come to claim His , tired in limb and weary in brain, we repaired to our beds, but far too much excitedby the days ])roceedings to enjoy quiet sleep, ahhough the next day was to witness our de-parture for the up-country. At II oclock on the evening of December 29th, after liidding the ladies at the •Homegood-bye, and taking leave of a number of friends who had assembled at the depot, we tookthe train for Benares, seven hundred and sixty miles distant, this being our first railroad ridein India. 1 give here an illustration of Indian traveling as it 70as : and 1 must <(infess TRAVELING IN INDIA AS IT WAS. although Indian traveling as it is. is not the most enjoyable, it is at least not subject to incon-veniences such as those portrayed in our sketch, and is, therefore, much to be preferred tothe older mode. Most of the people avail themselves of night travel in this country, it beinghot and dusty in the day; so with pillows, blankets, lunch-baskets, and my dear ones at myside, we took our compartments in the English-built, first-class car. and soon were speedingon our way, tired enough to go to sleep without being rocked or lullabied. The scenery alongthe route was, for the most part, quite monotonous. Indeed, had it not been for the mud-houses and the ox-carts with their many yokes of toiling cattle, their bronze-faced drivers, andthe immense fields of the castor-bean, we could have imagined ourselves in some portions ofIllinois. From our compartments
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