NARRATIVE OF A RESIDENCE 



AT THE COURT OF 



MEER ALI MOORAD. 



CHAPTER I. 



Rapid Travelling — Semmering Alp — Gratz — Trieste — Meer AH 

 Moorad — Engaged as Secretary to His Highness — Mercantile 

 Establishments^ — Opera House — Austrian Lloyds — Commerce of 

 Trieste — Protestant Church — Boschetto — Hotels — Corfu — Sap- 

 plio's Leap — Our FeUow-Passengers — Alexandria — The Consulate 

 — Cairo — Divine Service — Fall of Delhi — Postal Department 

 — Electric Telegraph — Antecedents of Meer All Moorad. 



I HAD just settled my family in Lonclorij 

 having quitted India, never intending to return, 

 when I was pressed by a distinguished parlia- 

 mentary friend to accompany him for the pur- 

 pose of meeting an Eastern sovereign, Meer Ali 

 Moorad Khan Bahader, Ameer of Sindh, in whom 

 we both felt an interest, and who was in some 



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