Bombay and western India, a series of stray papers; . ll is when a cancer eats into a nations \itals, when she forfeits,by her own acts, her right to existence and is the maker of herown doom. She has left not one book, not one invention, notone example of a high and holy life, not one deed of charity tocheer, to bless or guide mankind. The jackal howls at midnightfrom her seven walls of granite: impregnable they seemed tobe, but they have turned out no better than spiders webs, spunin a night—perished in a day. A deep awe rests on herdeserted and gi-ass-growu streets and theu- long colonnades
Bombay and western India, a series of stray papers; . ll is when a cancer eats into a nations \itals, when she forfeits,by her own acts, her right to existence and is the maker of herown doom. She has left not one book, not one invention, notone example of a high and holy life, not one deed of charity tocheer, to bless or guide mankind. The jackal howls at midnightfrom her seven walls of granite: impregnable they seemed tobe, but they have turned out no better than spiders webs, spunin a night—perished in a day. A deep awe rests on herdeserted and gi-ass-growu streets and theu- long colonnades—those bazaars where once was exposed the wealth of nations. Pompeii was less impressive, Canopus less forlorn as aspectacle of fallen greatness than the silence, tlie solitude andthe desolation that fell upon me as I lay under the shadow of agreat rock in this weary land of Vijayanagar.* * Colonel Cherry, from Belary, May 6th, 1890, tells me that none of the])eo]Je from Btlary to Uampe and Haspet, or thereabouts, will enlist in theIkitish ( 310 )
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