Category: Travel Writing
Captain Pratt--Carlisle Barracks--An Indian Bowman--The Indian Question--The Pupils' Gossip--The "School News"--Indian Visitors--The White Mother--The India Office--White and Red--Quo Quousque?--Indian Title Deeds--The Reservations--The Indian Agencies--Missionary Efforts--The...
Captain Pratt--Carlisle Barracks--An Indian Bowman--The Indian Question--The Pupils' Gossip--The "School News"--Indian Visitors--The White Mother--The India Office--White and Re...
10. CHAPTER I._May 30th._--At an hour as to which controversy might arise, owing to the changes of time to which we have been subjected, the train, which had pulled up but seldom during the n...
11. CHAPTER II._June 2nd._--It is astonishing how soon one gets accustomed to the rattle and rumble of the rail, and sleeps all the night through after a time, waking up only when a train stop...
12. CHAPTER III.The British Consul, Mr. Booker, who has been watching over the interests of the Queen's subjects for some thirty years here, and who is an institution by himself, met the train...
13. CHAPTER IV._June 12th._--The train stopped at Los Angeles at six in the morning, and, drawing up my window-blind, the first person I saw on the platform was our good friend Colonel Baker,...
14. CHAPTER V._June 19th._--Still on the rolling prairies; in the country of compulsory abstinence--the paradise of Sir Wilfred Lawson. At 9.30 A.M. the train stopped at Newton, 431 miles fro...
15. CHAPTER VI.The special train was detained by the immense amount of traffic on the line, as we approached New York, and we did not reach Brooklyn till a little before 11 P.M. on June 21, so...
16. CHAPTER VII._July 2nd._[B]--Up at 5.30. The Duke, Lady Green, Sir Henry, Mr. Wright, Edward, all engaged in the transport department, with Mr. Trowbridge in observation; incessant activity....
17. CHAPTER VIII.The "tar-water Bishop of Cloyne" would have been exceedingly astonished could he have seen the first line of his prophecy or averment made to do duty as a motto to Mr. Bancroft'...
18. CHAPTER IX.Captain Pratt--Carlisle Barracks--An Indian Bowman--The Indian Question--The Pupils' Gossip--The "School News"--Indian Visitors--The White Mother--The India Office--White and Re...
19. Part I., The Grammar. Small post 8vo, cloth, 2_s._ 6_d._ Part II. The[B] The day of our departure from the United States, after the visit of which I have been giving the details, was the date of a great crime, of which we were then ignorant. Abou...