Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... would cost a riot; sparrows flock into your room at daylight, through every open window and door, and banish sleep by their chattering and whirring of wings. They alight on your bed and musquito-curtains, drink from your bath-tub and water-jug, and watch you with a most critical air as you perform your ablutions and toilet. To the crows I cannot so easily reconcile myself, and when I see them walking over the breakfast crockery or tugging at the bread, I cannot help wondering what was the last object touched by their feet and bills. Bergh, in this country, would find his occupation gone. Their love of flowers, and their constant use of them as religious offerings to their deities, with their gentleness with animals, give a color of refinement to the worship of this people, which seems an embodiment of Coleridge's idea, --" He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast." You may be very sure that to go to any important city n India you must either go off the main line of rail or cross a river; for Delhi you must do both. We reach there at about six P.m., by switching off at Ghazeeabad. We find Hamilton's hotel perched on the city wall, with a good view of the highly-cultivated fields of the Jumna below. Delhi, January 15, 1873. We had a fair sleep during the night, somewhat modified by the very neighborly and musical disposition of the Delhi jackals, and the early visit of the sparrows seeking the earlier worm. We found our friend M, of Boston, at breakfast, and accepted his offer to be our pilot during the morning, for which his previous arrival had qualified him. Our first visit was to the royal palace and fort built by Shah Jehan, the scene of the magnificence of the Mogul emperors, and more recently the residence of the...
