I do not think that the latter can be equalled either in beauty or imaginative power anywhere in the world, and as for the former it may have been rivalled in ancient Egypt, but I am sure that it has never been since.

But, on the other hand, they are totally ignorant of many other arts.

Till Sir Henry, who happened to know something about it, showed them how to do it by mixing silica and lime, they could not make a piece of glass, and their crockery is rather primitive.

A water-clock is their nearest approach to a watch; indeed, ours delighted them exceedingly.

They know nothing about steam, electricity, or gunpowder, and mercifully for themselves nothing about printing or the penny post.