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women and servants. The bullocks yoked to them
were of the best Gujerat breed—white and stately
with fine horns curved into beautiful crescents at
the tips of which were shining ferrules of brass.

" The streets were always full of bustle and
resounded with a mingled din of human voices
tuned by the jmgle-j angle of horse and bullock
neck-ornaments, and the, tinkling of elephant and
camel bells, and the monotonous sing-song refrain
of palanquin bearers as they ambled along joyous-
ly with their burdens. All sights and sounds had
a family resemblance, and a native harmony in
them. Nothing seen or heard suggested any
discord or disharmony, none of that unhappy jar
between diverse modes of which we have such
unpleasant experience now. Hyderabad was still
a part of the 'Gorgeous East, that with richest
hand showers on her kings barbaric pearls and
gold/ "

" When the cinema of life was displaying
such pictures in the streets, the little Nizam was
hidden away in his Purani Havaili, amusing him-
self in his own way, and his Prime Minister, the
great man whose fame was ringing throughout
India (and England), was maturing his schemes
in his palace close by. Boy prince and elderly
Minister, symbols of-joyalty and loyalty, and
champions of greater Hyderabad ! Strange that