Chapter 16

INDIA.

Duty of a Governor-General to visit the Provinces--Progress to the North- West--Benares--Speech on the Opening of the Railway--Cawnpore--Grand Durbar at Agra--Delhi--Hurdwar--Address to the Sikh Chiefs at Umballa --Kussowlie--Simla--Letters: Supply of Labour; Special Legislation; Missionary Gathering; Finance; Seat of Government; Value of Training at Head-quarters; Aristocracies; against Intermeddling--The Sitana Fanatics --Himalayas--Rotung Pass--Twig Bridge--Illness--Death--Characteristics --Burial-place.

MEMOIR

OF

JAMES, EIGHTH EARL OF ELGIN,

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