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dinner a band is playing behind a screen at one end of the room.
The spring races and regatta of the yacht club are now in full blast, so that as leave Bombay in its most attactive season, Ths yacht race in the spacious harbor was a beautiful sight. Thera were over forty boats of various classes called “Dubashes,”
- Dateons,” “Sliding Guntere,” &3., most of
them very long, sharp end graceful in form, with immense lateen sails, and masta raking forward. One is named the “Live Yankee,’ and her colors were-“‘biue and red witha white star.” She wad ontered for the Afth race, and came within one of beating, As she swept past the “flag ship” I thought I detected in her captain the face of a man born in Yankee land.
There are but few American ships or mer- chants in Bombay, but “Wenham Lake ice” is as well known here as in Boston. The company has five thousand tons in store— enough for a year’s supply—and it is sold for an anna (three cents) a pound, Cheap enough after a voyage of fifteen thousand miles.
Among the sights in the neighborhood the most celebrated are the ‘Caves of Hle- paanta,” mtuated on an island in the harbor, ahout two houre’ sail from the pier. They are immense caverns cut in the solid reck, probably by the Buddhists, two thousand yesra ago. Though new partly in ruine, the gigantic etatuca end carvings upon the the rocky walls are very impressive. They embody the highest ideal of a pagan god. A three-faced colossal busi representa the BuddbisVa idea of God in his thres-fold ekearscter of Creater, Pregerver and De+ etroyer, whieh in the Hindog trinity. The graud repose of the two first is not the med- itation of # enint, but the calmuess of un- bounded power, Phe Destroyer’s head por- tends net so sams destraction as anuihila- tion te the world.
The week spent in Bombay has been fuil of interest; and now with sincere regret I rows say “farewell” to india, My travels hare, so far from exhansting, have only in- ereased my interest in this strange country, the home of one-zixth of the human race—a land where western ideas sad a Christian civilization are now straggling for a foot- hold, but must eventualiy replace the effete idolatry and paganism of the past.
