Twain's Begum of Bengal speech appears in Paul Fatout's _Mark Twain Speaking_, p. 577-583 (Univ. of Iowa Press, 1978). The speech was given at the Lord Mayor's Banquet for Mark Twain, Town Hall, Liverpool, July 10, 1907. The original Begum of Bengal anecdote is from Dana's _Two Years Before the Mast_, chapter 35. (However, for some unexplained reason, the passage has been edited out of some editions of Dana's book.) --Barb