Excerpt from Recollections of a Diplomatist, Vol. 2 Empire which the one had just left and to which the other was bound, and next morning departed on their several ways - Lord Elgin for Suez and home, and Mr. Bruce, with De Normann and Wyndham, for Singapore, where the Magicienne, steam frigate, Captain Nicholas Vansittart, was waiting to take the Mission on to hong-kong. As for me, I left St. Clair installed, and well looked after, at the Queen's House at Galle, and, accompanied by my faithful Italian valet, Perrini, took coach up country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.