Golconda and Ophir in one,
since her matchless wealth and munificence were approached only by her
ravishing personal charms. The other papers took up the topic, and were
even more extravagant. "Felix Farley's Journal" gave a long narrative of
her wanderings and extraordinary adventures in the uttermost East, as
gleaned, of course, from her garrulous agent. The island of her chief
residence was described as being of vast extent and fertility, immensely
rich and populous, and possessing many rare and beautiful arts unknown
to the nations of Europe. The princess had become desperately enamored
of a certain young Englishman of high rank, who had been shipwrecked on
her coast, but had afterward escaped, and as she learned, safely reached
a port in China, and thence departed for Europe. The Princess had
hereupon set out upon her journeyings over the world in search of him.
In order to facilitate her enterprise, and softened by the deep
affection she felt for the son of Albion, she had determined to break
through the usages of her country, and form an alliance with that of her
beloved.

Such were the statements everywhere put in circulation; and when the
Longbows of the place got full hold of it, Gulliver, Peter Wilkins, and
Sinbad the Sailor were completely eclipsed. Diamonds as big as hen's
eggs, and pearls the size of hazelnuts, were said to be the commonest
buttons and ornaments the Princess wore, and her silks and shawls were
set beyond all price.

The announcement of this romantic and mysterious history, this boundless
wealth, this interesting mission from majesty to majesty in person and
the reality which every one could see of so much grace and beauty,
supplied all that was wanting to set the upper-tendom of the place in a
blaze. It was hardly etiquette for a royal visitor to receive much
company before having been presented at Court; but as this princely lady
came from a point so far outside of the pale of Christendom, and all its
formalities, it was deemed not out of place, to show her befitting
attentions; and the ice once broken, there was no arresting the flood.
The aristocracy of Bristol vied with each other in seeing who should be
first and most extravagant in their demonstrations. The street in front
of the "White Lion" was day after day blocked up, with elegant
equipages, and her reception-rooms thronged with "fair women and brave
men." Milliners and mantuamakers pressed upon the lovely and mysterious
Prince