Our Viceregal Life in India: Selections from My Journal, 1884-1888, Volumen2John Murray, 1889 |
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17th Lancers afternoon amusing arrived ball Barrackpore beautiful beautifully Benares Blanche body-guard breakfast bungalow Calcutta carriage Colonel colour comfortable crowd dance Darjeeling decorated delightful dined dinner drawing-room dressed drove durbar elephants English enjoyed Frederick Roberts Friday garden party gentlemen girls glad gold guests Hermie hill horses hospital hour Hyderabad India Kuch Behar Lady Reay Lepchas looked Lord William Lord William Beresford lovely lunch luncheon Lyall Maharajah Major Cooper Monday morning mountains Mysore native Nelly nice night Nizam o'clock passed play pleasant ponies present pretty purdah Quetta railway Rajah received ride river road rode round Saturday Shamiana side silver Simla Sir Auckland Colvin sort splendid station Sunday tent thing Thursday tiger to-day took train Tuesday Umballa verandah Viceroy Viceroy's walked weather Wednesday whole Zenana
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Página 307 - ... Extraordinary ; became Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms, 1838 ; rose through various stages to be Registrar of the Heralds' College, 1866-9, and in 1869 became Garter Principal King of Arms; participated in many Garter Missions for the investiture of foreign Sovereigns ; was also for many years Registrar of the Orders of the Star of India and of the Indian Empire, and, since 1869, King of Arms to the Order of St. Michael and St. George; was present on duty at the Coronation of Queen Victoria, and...
Página 8 - Hohvell, who was the senior officer and one of the survivors, put up a monument over the spot. That monument was taken down about fifty years ago to spare some people's feelings, and now Dr. Busteed is very anxious to put up a stone to show where it stood, and to place in the church a tablet with the names of the persons who died in the Black Hole, which names Holwell had been at some pains to preserve. He (Holwell) was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds with the plan of this monument in his hand, and...
Página 189 - Sunday we went to church in the morning, and in the afternoon rode out to Mushobra. This house was built by Lord William Hay when he was in India, and is now divided into two flats. The Roberts' have the upper one, and Sir Edward Buck the lower.
Página 208 - The country is so unlike anything yOU have ever seen. The whole is absolutely barren, and it looks like a great storehouse of the earth's materials, rather than a finished portion of our world. There are piles of rock, and piles of sand, and piles of gravel, and piles of mud, ready as it were to the Creator's hand, but not yet used up. All is the same colour, and none of the prettinesses of life have any place here. There are no trees...
Página 8 - This being our last day at Calcutta, we crammed a little sight-seeing into it. D. and I went with Dr. Busteed to look at the site of the Black Hole. This gentleman is one of the few people here who takes any interest in such matters, and he has worked away until he has discovered the exact spot where it was, besides collecting all the interesting details concerning that terrible disaster. Having found the place, which...
Página 294 - July 1888, Lady Dufferin continued: "I went up to the new house this afternoon, and it did look lovely. It was one of Simla's most beautiful moments, between showers, when clouds and hills, and light and shade, all combine to produce the most glorious effects. One could have spent hours at the window of my unfurnished boudoir, looking out on the plains in the distance, with a great river flowing through them : at the variously shaped hills in the foreground, brilliantly coloured in parts, and softened...
Página 240 - The week has passed away without a daily record of our proceedings, but I can tell you what we have been doing. The King of Oude died in the autumn, and we all went to see his place and his house. I had visited the animals there before, but the Viceroy had never been able to go to this ex-king's habitation, so it was all new to him. Most of the animals have been sold, and the grounds look tidy and well kept. They are very large, and we drove about for half an hour, winding round bungalows, and bear-houses,...
Página 212 - This morning we had again to leave our carriages and to cross the Chenab in boats ; then we went on by train to the Indus, and crossed that in a steamer. Our destination was Dehra Ghazi Khan. Here a number of Beloochi chiefs met the Viceroy, and for more than a mile the road was close lined with their followers on horseback. They are a wild-looking set of men, with long hair in curls, and long beards, white loose garments and turbans.
Página 8 - ... parents, only unfortunately she always wanted to lift them, and the children objected. The Maharajah of Jeypore also came to the garden party. Sunday was Nelly's birthday, and by way of keeping it we went in the launch on the river and had tea. The fresh air was very pleasant. Poor Mr. Tennyson continues very ill, and his wife is rather knocked up ; Lady Ely is also suffering from an...