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Reed, S, 1906. The royal tour in India: a record of the tour of H.R.H. The Prince and Princess of Wales in India and Burma, from November 1905 to March 1906. Bombay, Bennett, Coleman and Co, pp. 1-506
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal |
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History |
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Indian Rhino |
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[Prince cancels tour to Nepal due to cholera, 1906] To-day has been a day of disappointment. The Prince of Wales, with his enthusiastic love of sport, had naturally been anticipating with no little pleasure a fortnight in the Nepal terai. There, quite free from official pomp and ceremony, he would have enjoyed such as is only given to Princes. The Maharaja of Nepal made arrangements on the most comprehensive scale. Camps were prepared at Thori, close to the border between Nepal and British India, north of Bettiah, and then forty miles into the [402] Chitwan district of Nepal. There were elephants by the hundred, and beaters by the thousand, and everything pointed to a record bag of tiger and rhinoceros, with perhaps an elephant or two. Then, last night, came news of an outbreak of cholera, and when this was confirmed, all idea of the shoot had to be abandoned. It was of course a very bitter disappointment, and mingled with this a sense of keen regret that the Maharaja of Nepal should have made these great preparations for nothing. But what was to be done during this fortnight ?
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