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aud perfectiy stil, Lfyou tuta you arein danger of upsetting the machine and being split out. Oaetrisiet tue Indien “paliy,” 33 ib is called, waa enough, end I voted ihe machine a humbug and noi ta be esmpared for comfort with the sedan casir tf Chins.
One cyening I found myseitin s guatry, with my baggage and New Varmint on the top of the vehicle, bound to the station of tue Mast India Railway, enroute for the Up country. On the way ta ths ter« tainus I stepped into azother botel to pay good bys te my Ruzsian friend whe had agicd 93 umpire in the doriax contest, and while thero 1 beszd the boom of tha ning eelock eyening gon inthe Places grounde near by, ard then a loud ehouting im the atveet followed by acrash, Wao driver had lett his seat to gaseip with anather native, and the ores frightened st the report of the gun, had dashed away, tke vehicle collided With a lamp poal and upset, tossing poor N. VY. amid 2 shower of bazcr, matchels and bunvlea info the middle of the sircet, whea he relied aver several times in the white aust, The poor fellow wad not burt, how- ever, but so badly frightened that his com- plexion with the aiditiea ol a thick cast of dust wea decidedly more Eurepean than Asiasic inealer. After some delay I ses- cared another czitisge, Dut train time was 85 nearat bard thab 1 barely cseaped being lefty the ferry baat which conveys paz sengers across the Hooghly to the suburb of Howrah where the reliwsy station is leeated. “New YWarmizt” tuck to me to the Jest, and so the train whirled away sud I ssw him from the wincow of my compartment bowing snd salsamiing lower than ever in cnusideration of the liberal douceur which ha reecived in addition to bis pay and perquisites.
I hed not seen a railway since EL lelt San Francisco four months preyieus, and the novelly wan quite erjayable, A few years ago the traveller who would pemetrate-into the interior of Indias wes obliged te travel in a Dek Gharry at the gate of forty or fifty miles 2 daz, and muy progcsed Grip of nearly thras thousand wiles up the valley cf the Ganges to Delhi, thenes to the Himelayas, and back threugh Northwestern sad Cen- tral India to Bumbsy, would have occupied many months, and invelysd $99 much risk and nardship to pay az a plossure excur- siox. Basi to-day there sre over Bix thousand mijes of complete railway in India and several thousand more are building.
