Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-04-19
AsTonisHED AE.onANs.

ad Of <hse He Saw.
C'r'ain Al Shan chiefs in charge q
the Aiyfsr pas have lately visited
G -. "a rs guests of the government
me following is an interesting &C
count which has been given by one o.
their number of the impressions de-
rived from his visit.
This is aK.ng's country; every ont
ought to be astOnished at seeing al
the wonderful things to be seen in it
The thing which has most astonishet
us Is the regularity with which every
thing is conducted. During our railway
journey we arrived at tho differen
stations and left again with grea
regularity. as arranged There il
no hing like this in our country. 4
country which is ill-governed is not .
good country.
I'VE arrived at Calcutta early in til,
morning. and, being tired. STAYED il
our lodgings the whole Of that day
On the day following we wen
to Howrah to see the railway
station AMI the workshops w
saw all tn" engines at work. There j.
nothing like these in our own country
winch is a poor country. We wer,
then taken to the mint and saw tn,
pice and fOur-anna pieces that are be.
ing coined there. Tie Cabul rupee:
are only worth twelve AMI onc-hal
annas; they are stamped with dis
and hammer. There is nothing t.
equal this government either in it.
silver or any thing else. or in it.
management of the country w,
visited the fort the mex dav. and con
sidered that very strong. We saw al
the cannon and big guns there They
are very COOL guns.
1--WE were then taken to the bo
tanical gardens in steam launch.
This is the first time we have been or
board steamer. and we emf ,yed the
trip very much. The gardens are by
far the finest we have ever seen. W.
were then taken TO The geological gar
dens and to Mat"abr u, the palace o.
the late King OF Ouie. which is Il very
fine place. We saw all the animals al
the geological gardens. Spma OF the
animals here we had seen b fore al
Cabul, but some of them we have
never seen before. and they greatly
astOnished us. us we could not tell &c
what country they belonged.
1--WE then paid a visit 10 the BAG.
chante. and were truly aston shed by
the big guns and by every thing on
board We never saw such things
before. No other government could
ever make ships like that. The CHIEF
wanted to distribute r. 900 among
the crew for showing all these won.
derful things. but the Cap ain of the
ship said the si'kar would be very
angry at their accepting a present
The chiefs again wanted to give the
sailors present, but were told that
they could not be allowed to do so. a
what had been shown to them had
been shown n their own amusement.
When we went down in the hold we
saw the mems tables spread in .
minute and again taken up. their beds
put down and taken up-:.'l done in a
minute-and in a moment the shir
was made ready for fight The big
guns were fired. but only with fuses.
We saw the sailors going up the rig.
ging very quickly. at the double. and
run up the masts and remain quiet
there. We have never seen these
things before. We were presented to
the Lord Sahib of the sea, who was
very kind to us.
I'VE were then taken to D unl. dunn,
where we saw small-arms manu-.
factory and tbs workmen making
cartridges and bullets Another day
we visited the Englishnsan newspaper
office, and saw them printing and
also making lead letters. One of us
wrote verse in Persian. A sahib
then took paper. and with a machine.
which cut like very sharp knife into
some white stuff. he wrote 1t. Then
lead was poured on. and in few min
utes they were printing the verse on
some copies of the EnglisAman. which
were presented to us We also spoke
through the telephone. Some of us
were at the Englisaman office and
some at Messrs. Ki,g Hamilton'a and
we recognized each others voice.
Then we visited the telegraph offi,e.
where we spike with q friend at
Pcshawur-all in few minutes. One
of us asked relative al p shawur how
he was. as he had been suffering from
fever. H. replied: Q lite vel how's
your boii?' Now. these words astou-
ishrd us very much. because none of
us knew that this man had had q boil
only his relative at Peshawur. Great
are the ways of the sirkar!'
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