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Java is the garden of the world, ex-
ceiling in elaborateneSS and cultivation
even Japan. The colonization of the
Dutch in the Oriental Archipelago is a
great success. The peoyle are Malays,
diminutive, seemingly frail and unin-
tellectual; but they are dociIe, indus
trious and contented. They readily
conform themselves to European ideas.
The Chinese bring to Java large por-
tiOn of the capital, enterprise and skill,
which the Dutchssso highly improve.
The Dutch Government is paternal,
careful of the Improvements of the is
land, but less liberal in regard to the
natives than the British rule in. India.
Java is almost under the equator, but
preserves a remarkable equilibrium of
heat and moisture. The rains supply
the island with abundant means Of ir-
rigation. Every tropical tree, fruit and
flower is found in Java. - -.
BRITISH RULE IN INDIA. FL
In British India the condition of
things has changed in the same way
and from the same cause that it has
changed in Great Britain. British rule
was established in India by eonque,t.
The British found there the Portuguese,
| the Spanish, the French and the Dutch.
| All the wars OF the European powers
of the last two hundred years of course
extended into the East, and 1t was the
fortune of Great Britain in the East to
conquer and obtain the oriental do
minions of her enemies. What. re-
mains of the possessions of the Dutch
is very much contracted from its orig
! inal dimensions. OF the French, only
a pageant of power remains. OF the
Portuguese, scarcely more than a name.
The nations of India have finallycome
into submission and aequiescence under
British authority. There Is only now
in India military force sufficient to
prevent mutinies or outbreaks, while
there is no longer any war with any
European power there, or any reason
able apprehension of any. 1t would
be difficult to convey to you an idea of
the British administration in India
Perhaps it is the nearest to 1t to say
that it is British common law and i'm
perial legislation, securing the rights of
person and property to natives equally
with foreign settlers, administered with
judicial processes and remedies, but all
dominated by the military authority,
with councils and judges appointed by
the Crown. Into these councils and
courts, as into every other Department,
the natives are brought in sufficient
numbers to guarantee the acquiescence
of the people. The policy of the Lord
Mayor is an American one It consists
in building roads and railways, and in
erecting schools, colleges, and fountains
for irrigation. Its taxation is, perhaps,
severe, but the revenues are expended
in improvements to benefit the country.
THE BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA. 4
1 travelled over very large portion
the days of Lord Give and Warren
Hastings, but / found them as peaceful
as a summers day.. The residents of
Calcutta were surprised when / asked
them to show me the Black Hole, as
they had never seen it, and had forgot
ten, if they ever knew, its traditional
Importance. They went, however,
and found it for me. Only a small por-
tion of that sad prison house remains,
preserved and quilt up into wall of
either the Custom House or the Post
Office.
THE GREAT MoGULs. a -ug 1
1 was also at Agra and Delhi, the
scenes of the ancient prestige and pow
er of the Great MOguls. Their empire
has passed away completely and for
ever and the monuments which it has
left surpass anything of architectural
splendor and beauty in the world. The /
living heirs of the ancient Mogul EN-
perors are now the cicerones, who take
a sad pleasure in showing you the
tombs of their ancestors, and tracing
out for you their relationship to them.
The Mogul reign was like one of the
campaigns which used to be so much
desired in our civil war-short, sharp
and decisive. Even Mohamedani SUI
perstition and bigotry has 50 far been
overcome that think the British Coy
eminent might now safely consent to
allow Mussulman worship. to. be per-
formed in the great temples of Delhi,
where it has been suppressed since the
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ELEVATING, THE CoLoRED MAN.
1 must not forget to mention an
amusing circumstance which transpired
at an entertainment given to us by the
Maharajah of Puttiala, native prince,
virtually king, in alliance with the
British Government. My colored ser
want, William Freeman, was mounted
on one of the fifty or sixty elephants
like the rest of us, with the same APP
pendage of silver ladder and gilded
howdah, and so bore part in the pro-
cession through the streets in Puttiala
as ostentatious. as any of us who had
derived our American citizenship by
birth, instead of through the Fifteenth
Amendment On our arrival, anid
the sound of music and the. noise of
presented arms, Freeman coming up
in the rear was unnoticed and left on
his high elevation, while the party
were entertained at the grand durbar.
He neither knew how himself, nor had
he an attendant who could make the
elephant kneel to let him down. There
was no one to present him with the
necessar silver ladder, and there he
was left perched on the back of the ele-i
phant. The ,durbar was nearly over
when discovered that he was absent.
On inquiry found that he was still in
the palace yard on his high elevation,
over the heads of the vast crowd, to
their great surprise and his own sad
modification. The Prince kindly sent
out and brought him in, and gave him
q seat at the durbar, which was more
comfortable though less magnificent
than the one, from which he had just
descended think Freeman did not
care ever to mount an elephant after
ward. iisH T71d1 1ila
.E..li NOT HEARTILY LOYAL. ~ bsa
/ do not think, however that he is
entirely loyal to his master, the Sultan.
Indeed, suspicious of the Khedive are
constantly entertained at Constantl-i