From Pall Mall to the Punjaub, or with the Prince in India, etc

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Introduction

. Deputed by the proprietors of the ' Daily Telegraph,' on the staff of which newspaper I had already had the happiness of serving for several years, to accompany the Prince of Wales during his Eoyal Highness's trip through India, I reached Bombay about a week before the festivities actually began. It was then that I began a series of letters, which, although not strictly chro nicliug all the acts of the Prince, described the more important places he saw and the more notable cere monies in which he took part. In addition to this, the letters were made to embrace as much information respecting the people and their customs as the facilities I was afforded enabled me to glean. On my return home it was suggested that my notes might be reprinted with advantage, as the records of a journey which, for the people of Great Britain, possesses a political and historical interest. And although I am well aware that they are necessarily somewhat dis jointed, I have placed them in chronological order, and

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. VI now submit them to the public, in the hope that the sights which at the time so deeply interested me will not be wholly uninteresting to others. Thanks are due to the proprietors of the ' Graphic ' for their kind permission to illustrate this book by re duced copies of drawings originally published in that journal. J. Drew Gay. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. First Impressions op Bombay . . .1 II. Social Life in Bombay . . 12 III. Receptions of Rajahs . . . .23 IV. Arrival of the Prince . . t . 41 V. Royal Fetes . . . . .52 VI. Life in Poona . . . 73 VII. Games and Sports at Baroda . . .84 VIII. The Voyage to Ceylon . . . . 103 IX. Cingalese Fairy Land .... 119 X. Kandyan Curiosities . . . 125 XI. The Veddahs of Ceylon .... 140 XII. The Sacred Tooth . . . . 146 XIII. A Week in Madras . . . . .151 XIV.

Indian Amusements . . . . 175 XV. The Prince in Bengal . . . .183 XVT. A Sunday in Calcutta . . . . . 192 XVII. Polo-playing and Snake-charming . . 199 XVIII. A Captive King . . . . 209 XIX. Life in Calcutta. . . ... 216 XX. Knight-making . . . . 225 XXI. The Sacred City of Benares . . .237 XXII. A Levee of the Brave . . . . 245 XXIII. A Review at Delhi . . . .261 XXIV. The Battle on the Ridge . . . 271 XXV. Feats of Skill and Strength . . . 280 XXVI. Jummoo the Magnificent . . . . CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE XXVII. Sport in Cashmere . . . .297 XXVIII. Akbar's Capital ..... 308 XXIX. A Tomb and a Tower .... 314 XXX. Native Courts and Prisons . . . 325 XXXI. An Eastern Paris .... 334 XXXII. Tiger Shooting and a Durbar . . . 347 XXXIII. Sctndia's Welcome ... . .357 XXXIV. Scenes in Gwalior ... .* . 368 XXXV.

Hunting in the Jungle .... 378 XXXVI. Allahabad and its Sights . . . . 383 XXXVII. English Life in the Hills . . . 389 ILLUSTRATIONS. A Rhinoceros Fight The Ascent to the Temple of Parbuttee, near Poona ...... To face p. 79 An Elephant Fight in the Arena at Baroda 90 A Captive Tioer led before the Prince after the Sports in the Arena at Baroda 94 h Buddhist Priests Exhibiting Buddha's Tonun to the Prince at Kandy . , 134 Native Princes at the Chapter of the Star of India, Calcutta . . . . 2 51 241 379 The Monkey Temple at Benares . Hunting in the Terai — Crossing a Xut.t.ui FROM PALL MALL TO THE PUNJACB.