text: " "I now (continues the khan) returned thanks to God for having brought me safe through the wide ocean to this extraordinary country--bethinking myself of the answer once made by a man who had undertaken a voyage on being asked by his friends what he had seen most wonderful--'The greatest wonder I have seen is seeing myself alive on land!'" The troubles of the khan however were far from being ended by his arrival on _terra firma_: for apparently from some mistake or inadvertence (the cause of which does not very clearly appear ) on the part of the friends whom he had expected to meet him he found himself on landing at Blackwall and proceeding by the railway to London left alone by the person who had thus far been his guide in apartments near Cornhill almost wholly unacquainted with the English language separated from his baggage and servants who were still on board the Edinburgh and with no one in his company but another Hindustani as little versed as himself in the ways and speech of Franguestan