Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . es and their loyal in-scriptions, with the Princeat the front, who was re-ceived with the wavingof flags, banners, andhandkerchiefs, while theair was filled with themusic and cheers. ThePrince appeared in theuniform of an Englishsoldier, having on hishead a helmet surmount-ed with his three-featlier-€d plume. His carriagewas immediately followedliy the English and nati\ eregiments of the line, andby the respective com-mands of the maharajahsand rajahs, it being drawnby
Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . es and their loyal in-scriptions, with the Princeat the front, who was re-ceived with the wavingof flags, banners, andhandkerchiefs, while theair was filled with themusic and cheers. ThePrince appeared in theuniform of an Englishsoldier, having on hishead a helmet surmount-ed with his three-featlier-€d plume. His carriagewas immediately followedliy the English and nati\ eregiments of the line, andby the respective com-mands of the maharajahsand rajahs, it being drawnby four beautiful whitehorses. The exercises and fes-tivities of the evening were even more grand and imposing ihan those of the day, the whole city being illuminatedwith a blaze of splendor, to accomplish which every device for turning darkness into lightwas brought into use. .Mile after mile of streets glowed with streams of fire. The buildingswere fairly wreathed with millions of Chinese lanterns of variegated colors, while great ban-ners lettered in flame bore the inscriptions God bless the noble Prince, God keep the. 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 railro
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