CHAPTER XVI. 



Arrival at Baroda — With Colonel Biddulph at the Residency — The late 

 Guicowar's crime — Baroda sights — A cosmopolitan style of architec- 

 ture — Quaint effect — With Lord Harris at Bombay — -A charming 

 place — Homeward-bound — M. le Capitaine and the Greeks — The 

 "Barn-door Polka" — The ship's engines break down — Arrival at 

 Aden — Colonial Britishers — Marseilles — Calais — And home. 



Friday. — We arrived at Baroda this afternoon, after 

 a wearying journey of twenty-four hours in the train. 

 As the season advances, and we get further south, the 

 weather has turned decidedly warmer, and we were glad 

 to exchange a stuffy railway carriage for a cool house. 

 Colonel Biddulph, the Political Officer, very kindly asked us 

 to stay with him, and we drove straight to the Residency. 

 It is a nice, roomy, old-fashioned Indian house. We 

 have the suite of rooms used by the former Resident, 

 who was nearly poisoned by the late Guicowar. 



It came out at the trial that a servant was bribed 

 to mix finely-powdered diamond dust with the lemonade 

 this officer drank at night. Whether correctly or not, 

 this is supposed by the natives to be a deadly poison, 

 and to make it still more certain a strong dose of arsenic 

 was added. " That," as a native gentleman who told us 



