'up the Country' Author:Emily Eden Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Buxai, Saturday, Nor. 11,1637. As we were passing a place called Bullhga this morning, we saw an enormous concourse of natives, and it turned ... more »out to be a great fair for horses. So we stopped the steamer, and persuaded G. to go on shore, just to go to the fair,' as we should have done at home, only we sent all the servants with silver sticks, and took our own tonjauns and two of the body-guard, and went in the state barge and with all the aides-de-camp. In short, we did our little best to be imposing, considering that we have only the steam-boat apparatus to work with; but we had hardly landed when A. came breathless from the other steamer to say that Mr. B. and Mr. C. were both half mad at the idea of a Governor-General going on shore in this way, and that C. was actually dancing about the deck with rage; and A. wanted us to turn back and give it up. Luckily G. would not be advised to do this. They said we should be murdered amongst other things, but in my life I never saw such a civil, submissive set of people. Our people and the police of the place walked on first, desiring the crowd to sit down, which they all did instantly, crouching together and making a lane all through the fair. They are civil creatures, and I am very fond of the natives. There were a great many thousands of them and some beautiful costumes; the bazaars were full of trinkets, and pretty shawls and coloured cottons. We went in our tonjauns, and G. walked till he was tired, which is soon done; and A. left us quite satisfied as to our safety and almost persuaded it was a dignified measure. We wanted him to tell C. that he had left G. in one of the ' merry-go-rounds,' of which there were several, but it was not a subject that admitted of levity. said the Governor-General should neve...« less