Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . m all menhave equal justice, and which will see that the humblest pun-kah-wallah is as much protected as the proudest peer. Whenyou read the history of India, its sorrow, its shame, its oppres-sion, its wrong, it is grateful to see a Viceroyresolved to dojustice to the humblest at the expense
Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . m all menhave equal justice, and which will see that the humblest pun-kah-wallah is as much protected as the proudest peer. Whenyou read the history of India, its sorrow, its shame, its oppres-sion, its wrong, it is grateful to see a Viceroyresolved to dojustice to the humblest at the expense of his popularity withthe ruling class. It was at Sir Ashley Edens entertainment that GeneralGrant received intelligence that the Richmond, which he hadbeen expecting to meet him at Ceylon, had not yet passedthrough the Suez canal. This was a great disappointment tothe General, because he hoped to have visited Ceylon andMadias. He had received a pressing invitation from the Dukeof Buckingham, who governs Madras, as well as from the Gov-ernor of Ceylon ; but to have waited for the steamer wouldhave prolonged our stay for several days. The General feltthat it would be unbecoming to trespass further upon the hostswho had been so kind to him, and learning that the steamer DEPARTURE FROM CALCUTTA. 149. Simla, commanded by Captain Franks, was to sail for Bur-mah at midnight, he resolved to visit Rangoon. This reso-lution left Ceylon and Madras unvisited, to our regret ; but itopened a new field of observation in a country full of interest,promising to be even more interesting. We had come toIndia late, becauseof our waiting forthe Richmond,and all the Euro-peans in India whocould go were flyingto the hills. More-over, we all felt theheat so severely thateven General Grant,who is an intenseand merciless trav-eler, indifferent tothe fatigues or the hardships of travel, was counting the days until we shouldpass the Straits of Malacca, and find comfort in the temperatezone at China and
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