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in the past have been lavished upon it. The 

 grounds are lovely, the gardens being the most 

 interesting and the best kept in India, so far as 

 my experience goes. It seemed to me that most 

 of the shrubs and creepers, which are singularly 

 beautiful, are either Cingalese or Japanese. The 

 " compound," as it is called, is almost as large 

 as a fair-sized English park and admits of a good 

 game of golf being played in it. I was very much 

 struck by the very tidy and well-kept look of the 

 whole place, which I am afraid cannot be said of 

 either the Calcutta or Simla palaces. 



It is refreshing and educationally advantageous 

 to talk over India with Sir George Clarke. He is 

 a first-class man whose grasp of the situation, not 

 only in his own province, but throughout India, is 

 remarkable, whilst his resolute and usually suc- 

 cessful treatment of dangerous situations renders 

 him valuable to India. Last, but not least, Indians 

 respect him. 



I do not think I ever came across a nicer set of 

 men than the Governor's staff, and I shall always 

 retain a grateful recollection of the quiet, well- 

 bred, unobtrusive manner in which they devoted 

 themselves to making me happy and comfortable. 

 I was especially taken with the surgeon, who 

 has the reputation of being one of the best 

 physicians in India. He is a singularly silent 

 man, but his taciturnity was relieved by brilliant 

 flashes of young leopard. He had picked up a 

 leopard cub in the jungle and had brought it up, 

 so far as I could make out, on a diet of sponges 

 and milk. He is devoted to the leopard and the 

 leopard is devoted to him. I took the oppor- 



