THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR'S CAMEL CARRIAGE, LAHORE

The following images are from the book "King's Empire" published in 2 volumes the early 1900s. The photographs were taken at the height of the British Empire. The books are available in higher resolution for download as PDF ebooks at www.ozebook.com

THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR'S CAMEL CARRIAGE, LAHORE. The King's subjects travel in many ways, and some of them in strange ways but few odder combinations can probably be found than that which the camera here presents to us. The clumsy camel, harnessed to a vehicle representing the latest , triumphs of European carriage-building, furnishes indeed an odd contrast. But though, if we are to believe our French critics, "the Briton is the most unadaptable of mankind," he has never proved himself behindhand in getting the best value out of horse, camel, elephant, mule, donkey, or dog, or any animal which at a pinch he can ride or drive, and if the camel can under the circumstances do the work better than a Cleveland bay, into the shafts he will go. (Page 6.)