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season, and this is race week, a great attrac tion to the English at home or abroad. The faces ara advertised from 7 to 10 o’clock in the morning, before tha heat of the eur drives everybocy within doora. At thie early heur the race ground is covered with sbylish exrriaged containing the waalth and fashion ef the metrepolis. Huropeaus sad Bengsiese, Puxks snd Arabs, Hindoss ard Mobometane, ia clarences and broughamr, gharries, dog-earta, traps, drags, snd every eonceiyabie plyle of yehicle, drawa by horses, mules and donkeys, crawd the road. ‘Pha costumes ara of every color of the rain- bow, ond the somplexicns of every ehede, fror the jet black with straight gloasy hair, whose shiny skins ere an excellent foil for their trhile estton robs, np through half eaute and every shade of mixture to pure white blood. The g3y turdsne and rick flowing rebes of silk and gatin wore by the Baboos, or vativa merchants, give a pietirerqueness to the sezae preallar tothe East. The track ia of solid, firm turf; the horsed of Arshian stock, the jsekeya drecsed in faney oclore, the yavesrun at {nilepeed 26 at Epzom er Avect in Ola England. But L am more ieterested in lookirg atthe epee: tatora than in watehing the rave. I notica that no person on foot, hersezack or in eax- rlage, Bniges Gf pure Huropssn blord, is ad- wilted to tho inner cirgiz, or ness the grand aisnd. Thers ig in Indias a larze ciass of wall educated, sud often very wealthy peo- ple, eatied Hurasians, or English-speaking halfesstes, who inter-marry with tke Kurepess, but who seem to be an intermediate race betweea the Hin- doe and the Oancasian. Te precjudice ef color siuts them out from the best Hog lish escioty, while their awn pride and su- perlerlty in exitare keeps them distineS from the wealthy sxetiona of full Indisn blood.
Of the wholg resident population cf Cal- entts, lees than ten thausand are Buropeans. Many of the Eyetisn merchants sro very wealthy and liveinagivle of luxury and aplendor thas impresses the stranger. Their houses are literally palaces, and their hoapi- tality usbounded. The Atmexians are es very numercuy and jnilvertial body of morchants, aud the native Hindoos, though formerely ifmovous, now as bankers, sgontsand rioney fenderr, venture upon every kindof mercantile speculation, and goods belonzing to ustlys merchants, val- ued at several millions sterling are lying
