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Almost immediately preparations for the route were worked out, twenty-five airdromes and landing-fields were designated, of which the main ones would be at Cairo and Basra on the Tigris, with subsidiary fields at Marseilles, Pisa, or Rome, Taranto, Sollum, Bushire, Damascus, Bagdad, Bander Abbas, Karachi, Hyderabad, and Jodhpur.
Thence I went on to Karachi and Bombay and Marseilles, and, after a pleasant tour on the Continent of Europe, arrived in the Old Country in May, 1858, after an absence of rather more than six years. James's Palace on June 3, 1907. The riches of the city of Delhi and the opulence of its Princes and merchants had been celebrated in Hindostan from time immemorial.
Thence they went on via Bushire, Bander Abbas, Tcharbar, and Karachi to Delhi, where they received a tremendous ovation as the first fliers to arrive from the home country. From Delhi they continued on without mishap to Calcutta.
Monday, 20th. We reached Karachi yesterday morning after a quiet, calm, and utterly uneventful passage across the Indian Ocean. It was never hot merely calm, grey, and even showery, our only excitements being an occasional school of porpoises or the sight of a passing tramp steamer.
In August he visited Bombay to be examined in Gujarati; and having passed with distinction, he once more returned to Baroda just in time to join in the farewell revels of his regiment, which was ordered to Sind. Karachi. Love of Disguise.
The plant, rails, and sleepers were on the spot, having been carried over the hill, and a railway-carriage could then run from Calcutta to the eastern extremity of the tunnel without break of gauge. The tunnel, when completed, will be thirty-four feet broad, and twenty-five feet in height. A curious incident happened at one of the railway-stations between Quetta and Karachi.
The messages were simultaneously despatched from Epsom, that by Tehran reaching Bombay five seconds before the other, but as the name of the winning horse only was given correctly, Karachi, six hundred miles distant, had to be asked for a repetition of the names of the second and third horses. The cable telegram gave the three names accurately.
The idea of being obliged to travel under the enemy's protection was, of course, not a very pleasant one to Mr. Kennedy; but in the interests of the females who accompanied him he was bound to acquiesce in the arrangement, since there was really no better chance of reaching Karachi quickly and safely.
The tide happens to be out at the time, and so we have to lay to till the following morning, when the Mandarin crosses the bar and drops anchor preparatory to unloading the now badly demoralized mules into lighters. Karachi bids fair to develop into a very prominent sea-port in the near future.
"On'y try me!" said Ortheris, jumping to his feet as if he had been stung. Mulvaney jumped too. "Fwhat are you going to do?" said he. "Help Ortheris down to Bombay or Karachi, whichever he likes. You can report that he separated from you before tiffin, and left his gun on the bank here!" "I'm to report that am I?" said Mulvaney, slowly. "Very well.
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