Timely Retreat From India, before the & Mutinies

INDIA has long been a household word to his. Father and mother, aunts and uncles, had all spent great part of their lives there; cousins, as they arrived at years of dis»- qretion, all seemed naturally to bend their steps towards the “glowing East.” From our earliest infancy japauned cabinets and boxes of marvellous workmanship were as familiar to us as dolls or spelling~books.
Bronze Hindoo idols of grotesque form, and preserved snakes and insects of every conceivable shape, decorated our house, which literally overflowed with curiosities.
THE TIMELY RETREAT;

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A YEAR IN BENGAL BEFORE THE MUTINIES. i
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t INDIA has long been a household word to l . Father and mother, aunts and uncles,
Ed all spent great part of their lives there;

cousins, as they arrived at years of dis-
Qretion, all seemed naturally to bend their

steps towards the “glowing East.” From
our earliest infancy japanned cabinets and
boxes of marvellous workmanship were as
familiar to us as dolls or spelling-books.
Bronze Hindoo idols of grotesque form, and

preserved snakes and insects of every con-
ceivable shape, decorated our house, which

literally overfiowed with curiosities;