A Journey to Katmandu: (the Capital of Nepaul) with the Camp of Jung Bahadoor; Including a Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home |
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Page 111 - It is the landscape in front, however, that most powerfully attracts the attention — the scenery in this direction rising to an amphitheatre, and exhibiting to the delighted view the cities and numberless temples of the valley below, the stupendous mountain of Sheopoori, the still supertowering Jib Jibia, clothed to its snow-capped peak with pendulous forests, and finally the gigantic Himaleh, forming the majestic background to this wonderful and sublime picture.
Page 52 - Jung's coup d'etat had taken rather a different turn from what he had intended ; the die, however, was cast, and everything depended upon his coolness and decision in the trying circumstances in which he was placed. Though he may have felt that his life was in most imminent peril, it is difficult to conceive how any man could attain to such a pitch of cool desperation as to enact the scene which closed this frightful tragedy. There still confronted him fourteen of the nobles whose leader had been...
Page 92 - ... portrait of some sedate old Nepaulese noble. Jung called our attention to one of these ; it was the portrait of a strikingly handsome man, whose keen eye and lofty brow seemed almost to entitle him to the position he held between the Duke of Wellington and the Queen. " See," said Jung, enthusiastically, " here is the Queen of England, and she has not got a more loyal subject than I am.
Page 29 - ... his glistening tusks looking rather formidable — so at least the elephant seemed to think, as for some time he strongly objected to approach him. At last he went timidly up, and gave the boar a severe kick with his fore-foot, drawing it back quickly, with a significant grunt, which plainly intimated his opinion that he had done as much as could reasonably be expected of him. His mahout, however, thought otherwise, and, by dint of severe irritation on the sore behind his ear, seemed to drive...
Page 52 - Jung, vowing vengeance on the murderers of his son, sprang forward to avenge his death, and in another moment Bum Bahadoor, already seriously wounded, would have fallen at his feet, when the report of a rifle rang through the hall, and the timely bullet, sped by the hand of Jung Bahadoor, laid the gallant father by the side of his no less gallant son. " Thus Jung's coup d'etat had taken rather a different turn from what he had intended ; the die, however, was cast, and everything depended upon his...
Page 49 - ... of everything, had some good reason for the present double occupancy of the throne. It struck me that it would answer one purpose at any rate : it would show the people that the young king looked as imbecile as the old one, while his countenance was far less prepossessing, as he seemed only to have just sense enough to be able to gratify the brutal and sensual passions to which he is a prey ; whether the stories of wholesale executions of slaves taking place in his court-yard merely for his amusement...
Page 51 - ... Queen to put him to death ; as, however, the Rajah would not sanction the execution, Abiman Singh refused to obey the command — a proceeding on his part which seems to have raised a suspicion in the mind of Jung that he had been concerned in the assassination. This suspicion he communicated to Futteh Jung, the other colleague of the late prime minister, suggesting that Abiman Singh and the sirdar already in custody should be forthwith executed, and Futteh Jung installed as prime minister. Futteh...
Page 111 - ... fertilized by numerous meandering streams, but also embracing on every side a wide expanse of charmingly diversified country. It is the landscape in front, however, that here most powerfully attracts the attention ; the scenery, in this direction...
Page 50 - ... but asserts that it was an act of necessity, from which there was no escaping. The plea which he invariably uses, when referring to the catastrophe, is that either his life or his uncle's must have been sacrificed, and he naturally preferred that it should be the latter. However that may be, the immediate effect was the formation of a new ministry, in which Jung held office in the capacity of commander-in-chief. The premier, Guggin Singh, was associated with two colleagues.