text:  To a native of India indeed accustomed to see every petty rajah or nawab holding a few square miles of territory as the tenant of the Company surrounded on state occasions by a crowd of the picturesque irregular cavalry of the East and with a _Suwarree_ or cavalcade of led horses gayly caparisoned elephants flaunting banners and martial music the amount of military display in attendance on the Queen of Great Britain must naturally have appeared inconsiderable--"The escort consisted of only some two hundred horsemen but these were cased in steel and leather from head to foot and their black horses were by far the finest I have yet seen in this country