. A tour around the world by General Grant. Being a narrative of the incidents and events of his journey . cenes in the life of a tax-gatherer. Therewas a good deal of skill and some humor shown in the manage-ment of the puppets, and altogether it was an odd dinner over we took our leave of our friends, whose kind-ness had been unbounded, and next morning proceeded to thenorth, to Delhi, the city of the Mogul kings, and Lucknow, thecity of the rulers of Oude—cities famous in the ancient historyof India for their wealth and splendor, and even more famous nowwith a dreary and trag
. A tour around the world by General Grant. Being a narrative of the incidents and events of his journey . cenes in the life of a tax-gatherer. Therewas a good deal of skill and some humor shown in the manage-ment of the puppets, and altogether it was an odd dinner over we took our leave of our friends, whose kind-ness had been unbounded, and next morning proceeded to thenorth, to Delhi, the city of the Mogul kings, and Lucknow, thecity of the rulers of Oude—cities famous in the ancient historyof India for their wealth and splendor, and even more famous nowwith a dreary and tragic renown as the centres of the mutiny of 185/. From Agra General Grant and his party went to Jeypore, tovisit the Maharajah of that place, one of the wealthiest and mostpowerful of the native princes of India. We left Agra about noon, says Mr. Young, in his letter toT/ie New York Herald, the day being warm and ride was through a low, uninteresting country, broken byranges of hills. The railway is narrow gauge, and, as I learnedfrom one of the managers who accompanied us, has proved a. (53i, 532 AROUND THE WORLD. success, and strengthens the arguments in favor of the narrowgauge system. It was night before we reached Jeypore. On ar-riving at the station the Maharajah was present with his Minis-ters, and the English Resident, Dr. Hendley, who acted in placeof Colonel Beynon. As the General descended, the Maharajah,who wore the ribbon and star of the Order of India, advancedand shook hands, welcoming him to his dominions. The Maha-rajah is a small, rather fragile person, with a serious, almost apainful, expression of countenance, but an intelligent, keen looked like a man of sixty. His movements were slow, im-passive—the movements of old age. This may be a mannerism,however, for on studying his face you could see that there issome youth in it. On his brow were the crimson emblems of hiscaste—the warrior caste of Rajpootana. His Highness does notspeak
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