Raja Sir Savalai Ramaswami Mudaliyar. Maharaja Sri Rao the Hon. Sir Venkalasvetachalapati Ranga Ras Bahadur, Raja of Bobbili. Meherban Ganpatrao Madhavrao Vinchwikar. The Hon. Asif Kadr Saiyid Wasif Ali Mirza, of Murshidabad. The Hon. Nawab Mumtaz-ud-daula Muhamad Faiyaz Ali Khan, of Pahasu Bulandshahr. Nawab Fateh Ali Khan, Kizilbash. Gangadhar Madho Chitnavis. Rai Jagannath Barua Bahadur. Maung On Gaing. Lieut.-Colonel Nawab Mahomed Aslam Khan, Khan Bahadur. The Sultan of Perak. King Lewanika. H.R.H. The Crown Prince of Siam. The Datoh Panglima Kinta. The Datoh Sedelia Rab. Sri Baba Khem Singh, Bedi of Kullar. They were from every part of the world and of every race under the sun. In type and colour they would have illustrated a discourse on ethnology, or craniology. Some were from the centre of wildest Africa, not long come under the dominion of Britain. Of one of them, a king whose blackness of skin was beyond belief, I was told an anecdote. Just after his arrival in London, he had been driving out with the nobleman to whose tutelage he had been trusted. In one of the suburban squares a toxophilite society was meeting. The king stopped the carriage and turning to his companion said: “Bows and arrows here in the heart of London! And I assure you that for more than a year I have prohibited them in my dominions.” The Premiers of all the great Colonies were present, and a host of lesser representatives of King Edward’s dominions. Also a vast number of peers and peeresses and other representatives of the nation—statesmen, ecclesiastics, soldiers, authors, artists, men of science and commerce. The most gorgeous of all the guests were of course the Indian Princes. Each was dressed in the fullest dress of his nationality, state and creed. The amount of jewels they wore, cut and uncut, was perfectly astonishing. It was very hard to keep Irving in the spot which he had chosen for himself; for as the great crowd streamed in on three sides he kept shifting a little every moment to greet some old friend, and had to be brought back to the point where he could meet all. In such cases he was always amenable to a delightful degree. Seeing the difficulty to himself he asked me to get two or three important friends to stand with him. He named Lord Aberdeen and the late Right Hon. Richard Seddon, the Premier of New Zealand. These came and stood with him, and the nucleus protected him from movement.