The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 12: what you’re looking at

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6 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. odd sights may be seén, especially in the morning or evening. - A stranger might not notice anything wrong, for the picture presents an amazing conglomeration of life and color, to be found nowhere else on earth. ~ 4 To one accustomed to. feeling the pulse of old Bombay, however, the blight of the shadow that hangs over the India of to-day can readily ‘be detected. When’a rajah or navab, splendidly attired, and with @ . crowd of native retainers dogging his heels passes along, _ there is more than the ordinary amount of enthusiasm displayed; whereas just the contrary proves to be the case whenever Tommy Atkins appears upon the scene, for averted facea and even dark scowls greet the British soldier. 7 There be times in the history of all conquered nations when the fountain of memory is stirred and the old spirit of independence struggles to arise. Of all people the Hindoo race have the least cause to fret under -the yoke, for England has during the last century, since losing her colonies in America, learned to treat her vassal dependencies with the utmost consid- eration. Still, when famine ravages the land and ihe bucolic plague sends victims to the burning ghauts along the water front faster than they can be consumed by fire, comicbooks.com