Excerpt from Chronicles of Dustypore: A Tale of Modern Anglo-Indian Society

He seems like one whose footsteps halt,
Tolling in immeasurable sand,
And o'er a weary, sultry land,
Far beneath a blazing vault,
Sown in a wrinkle of the monstrous hill,
The city sparkles like a grain of salt.

Any one who knows or cares anything about India - that is, say, one Englishman in a hundred thousand - is familiar with the train of events which resulted in the conquest of the Sandy Tracts, the incorporation of that unattractive region in the British Indian Empire, and the establishment of an Agency at Dustypore.

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