CHAPTER XXVII. 



LEAVE BOMBAY FOR SUEZ. JOURNEY THROUGH 

 EGYPT. SAIL FROM ALEXANDRIA FOR GIB- 

 RALTAR. JOURNEY THROUGH SPAIN. CROSS- 

 ING THE PYRENEES. ENCOUNTER WITH A 

 BEAR. FRANCE. ENGLAND. 



AT Bombay, we found a noble steamer about to sail 

 for Suez. Our arrangements were speedly made for the 

 voyage and on the third day after we left the coasting 

 ketch, we bade adieu to Bombay and India, as regards 

 myself forever. My emotions on leaving India, were 

 of a somewhat sorrowful nature. I remembered many a 

 monotonous, depressing journey through its wild scenery, 

 but I also called to mind the amiable hospitality with 

 which the natives had received us total strangers some 

 magnificent scenery revelling in luxuriant beauty edifices 

 that told of the arts hundreds of years before sport in 

 hunting the monarchs of the forests and glorious strife 

 with wild animals peerless in strength agility and ferocity, 



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