Bombay and western India, a series of stray papers; . and glory and the highest paidofiices of the State. It was the order of Providence that SirWilliam Jones should come before Mackintosh, WarrenHastings before Dalhousie, Lake before Clyde, Carey and Henry]\Iartyn before Dutf and Wilson. But for one Governor-Generalwho was a Scotsman in the eighteenth century you will havefive filling that exalted office in the nineteenth; for one Com-mander-in-Chief of the Indian Army who was a Scotsman youwill have five. And in the long bead-roll of the Governors ofBombay and Madras it is the same story wit
Bombay and western India, a series of stray papers; . and glory and the highest paidofiices of the State. It was the order of Providence that SirWilliam Jones should come before Mackintosh, WarrenHastings before Dalhousie, Lake before Clyde, Carey and Henry]\Iartyn before Dutf and Wilson. But for one Governor-Generalwho was a Scotsman in the eighteenth century you will havefive filling that exalted office in the nineteenth; for one Com-mander-in-Chief of the Indian Army who was a Scotsman youwill have five. And in the long bead-roll of the Governors ofBombay and Madras it is the same story with this difference,seven in our century to one in the last. Stands Scotland whereit did ? I should think so, and much better llum it did. is the cry— Still as of yore, Queen of the North!Still canst thou send thy children forth. * Sir Eobert C. Napier, lx)rn in Ceylon (1810); died January 12th,1890. I have always felt that my name belonged to Scotland.—Speech on receiv-ing freedom of the City of Edinburgh, September IGth, 1868. ( 351 ). IIOONT GIRNAR IN KATHIAWAR. CHAPTER LXII. Cannibal and Ogke. This is a ghastly subject, said Mrs. (now Lady) Burton toDr. Vandyke Carter as they sat down under a cloud of cigarettesmoke to discuss leprosy. I could see that she began with face and maintained it to the end. This also is a subject so gruesome that it requires absolutelyto be relieved by some diversion. Even Xavier one day askeda praying insect to sing a canticle; and Bowen, his successorin these latter days in the Konkan, once extracted a joke out ofsuicide. Made myself such a fool that I cannot live, wasfound scrawled on a scrap of paper. If all the people iu theworld who have made fools of themselves were to go and dolikewise there would be few peo]ile left. Even with subjectsthat are not dreadful the mind chafes under the strain. Take 352 CANNIBAL AND OGKE. Palestine, for example. Probably it is the dream of your life:four weeks of sacred scenes—a Idnd o
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