Identifier: williamhsewardst01sewa (find matches)
Title: William H. Seward's travels around the world
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Seward, Olive Risley, 1844-1906
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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which gave us a concert on nativeinstruments, playing their pensive airs, which we thought at firstso unintelligible, but which we now find pleasing, sometimes quitetouching. The gamut is like our own, of eight tones, but in play-ing or singing a melody, called rang, they use all the semi-tones,so that the performance is a chromatic succession of notes, and youhave to guess which of the accentuated tones speak the air. Sud-denly, at the prime ministers command, this series of diversionscame to an end, and all the performers, musicians, jesters, jugglers,acrobats, and fools, disappeared. - Thereupon sixty thorough-bredArabian, Persian, Australian, and African horses, came before usfor inspection. They were gorgeously caparisoned, with silkenbridles, golden trimmings, kincob and velvet robes, and housingsof India cashmere. They wore also gold ear-rings and necklacesand bangles. One of them, which is claimed to be the fastest horsein India, borrows the name Hermit from the great English
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THE MAHARAJAHS PALACE. 425 courser. The fantastical grooms manifested scarcely less pridethan the horses themselves in showing their fine points. What wonder that we now thought the princely exhibition wasended ? It was not, though. We were summoned again to ourseats in the pavilion at the -gate. Two elephants came into thearea with their calves—one of these born since the captivity of thecow, the other made a captive with its mother in the jungle. Fewpersons, perhaps, can imagine how skilfully the little animal throwsback its trunk, while taking its nutriment. The calf that was native here, and to the manner born, was bold and. indifferent,the other timid and frightened. Its cries were almost human, andthe mothers manner of soothing it not less so. At five oclock, Mr. Seward, the ladies, Captain Horsford, andservants, were duly mounted in gorgeous howdahs on elephants,Mr. Seward being raised to his howdah in a gilded palanquin.Notwithstanding our previous experience, we all felt in

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