"Tt was at Jeypore that the Prince shot his first tiger, or rather tigress—the very fine one now at Sandringham; and the Royal party then had almost a month of Ramsay in the Kumaon Terai—among the tiger-hunting, the early part with General great stretch of forest-land at the foot of the Himalayas—the rest with Sir Jung Bahadoor in Nepaul territory. The doings of this time are of interest mainly to hunters; to the outer world it may suffice to say that twenty-eight tigers were killed in Nepaul (most of them by the Prince), not to mention elephants, leopards, and bears. And so back to British territory, Allahabad; to Jubbulpore, Indore, finally Bombay; with farewell Durbars, receptions, processions—and at Indore another ceremony, like that at Lucknow, where the Prince touched the awards of survivors of the Mutiny."
In more than one respect, the Prince of Wales left Bombay a very much richer man than when he had first landed there seventeen weeks before. He was richer for one thing in the magnificent gifts which he received from the native Princes, gifts of which the aggregate value is said to have been about half a million sterling; but, above all things, richer in the knowledge he had gained of the rulers, races, and resources of India to the Imperial crown of which he was the heir. I say Imperial crown" because, before leaving Bombay, it had become known to the Prince that his royal mother now meant to assume the title of Empress of India—an act for which his tour in the East had prepared the way by deepening the attachment of the native rulers and their subjects to the British raj.
Gri his return home the Prince was wol-comed everywhere with the greatest enthusiasm. He himself with the Princess and his two brothers, the Dukes of Edinburgh and Connaught, attended thanksgiving service in Westminster Abbey; and soon afterwards he was entertained at a banquet and ball in the Guildhall (to which over 5,000 were invited), when the City presented him with an Address of welcome in a golden casket of Indian design. It was his highest reward and his greatest pride, enid the Prince in acknow. Tedging this honour, to have received fron the citizens of London and. his country such a welcome at the termination of visit which had been undertaken with the view of strengthening the ties that bound India to our common country.
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