Prefatory Note
The follovnng Extracts, from Letters sent home from foreign lands, form an extension of a previous Volume, entitled ‘ Crimean Oracles! It may he useful to give the meaning of the latter word. The term “crack,” in the Scottish dialect, has been happily defined as signifying “ a familiar chat, with a human sold in it.”
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS.
SOUTH AFRICA.
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Outward bound, ..... 1
Whales ! Cape Town, .... 4
Emigrants from the “ German Legion,” . . 4
A visit from Caffre chiefs, .... 9
Journey inland, . . . . .13
Startling news of a mutiny in India, . . .21
A piscatorial discovery, . . . .28
Caffre children at school, . . . .31
Visit from the Governor, . . . .40
Our orders for India arrive, . . . .42
Leave Caffraria, . . . . .47
INDIA.
Approach to Calcutta by the river Hughli, . . 52
At Benares, ...... 59
A Rajah loyal and true, . . . .61
Night journey — Dinapore to Arrah, . . .65
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