e crowds, perhaps the greatest in the Emerald
Theatre, in which there must have been nearly 3,000 people, inside
and out, listening through the doorways. It was certainly the most
remarkable audience I ever addressed. Exclusively native. I only
saw one white face in the crowd beyond our own people. Nothing more
hearty could have been conceived. Then came Meeting upon Meeting;
but the Circus on Sunday night outdid almost anything in some
respects, that I have ever witnessed in my life. It came upon me
quite by surprise. The hour fixed was the same as the churches, and
it had been predicted that we should not get an audience. It was
right away outside the city, in a park in the swellest part of the
suburbs. Consequently, it was not at all attractive to the native,
who doesn't like to get outside his own quarter.

"The Emerald Theatre had been a great success because it was in the
midst of his quarter; the Europeans would not come there, and now
it was fair to assume that the native would not come to the
European centre.

"As to any attendance of English people, that was hardly to be
expected. They had cold-shouldered me at the Town Hall, the
Lieutenant-Governor had even refused to see one of our Officers
when she called, although he had the reputation of being a
Christian man. The Viceroy had been civil to me--he could not have
been otherwise; in fact, he verged on friendliness before we
parted--but that was all. His Military Secretary had been as stiff
as military etiquette could possibly make him. There seemed to be,
therefore, nothing much to expect as to audience from them.

"Then I was tired out--a more wearying morning and afternoon I had
seldom experienced--and I bargained in my own mind, and even
mentioned it to Ajeet Singh, that if there was not much of an
audience I should leave them to bear the brunt of the burden.

"As we drove up the appearance of things seemed to confirm my
anticipations. Everything was silent. They had been afraid of the
roaring of the wild beasts disturbing the Meetings, but there was
not a growl to be heard, nor a carriage to be seen, nor even a
pedestrian. It is true we were at the back part of the Circus.

"Hoe came to meet us, however, at the gates, and when asked about
the audience very coolly announced,