He took boat with a few attendants and was rowed up the Thames to Norfolk Street, where a house overlooking the river had been prepared for his reception.
His journey is an epoch in the history, not only of his own country, but of our's, and of the world.

To the polished nations of Western Europe, the empire which he governed had till then been what Bokhara or Siam is to us.

That empire indeed, though less extensive than at present, was the most extensive that had ever obeyed a single chief.

The dominions of Alexander and of Trajan were small when compared with the immense area of the Scythian desert.

But in the estimation of statesmen that boundless expanse of larch forest and morass, where the snow lay deep during eight months of every year, and where a wretched peasantry could with difficulty defend their hovels against troops of famished wolves, was of less account than the two or three square miles into which were crowded the counting houses, the warehouses, and the innumerable masts of Amsterdam.