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and the younger sheaves they are carrying home with them are generally healthy looking, and race abont the ship, keeping their Ayeks, or native nurses, in constsnt tribnlation, for fear they will fall averhoard. in India every Murepean ehild is expected to have a native attendant, from whem they learn Hindoostance before they know « word of English. Upon their parents the tropicut climate hos left its mark. Their fresh con plexions haye turned sallow, their blood be- come thin, and their systems lost energy and elasticity, But now the thought of merry lhomesin Old England, to which they sre bound, brings an unusual glow to the check and sparkle to the eyes.
Aumong our passengers aud my next neigh- hor ut the table, is a Greek priest, for iwenty years the “padre” of the Greek church at Caleutta, His long whiie beard gives him « yenerable, patriarchial appearance, bub he jgas full of fun and jollity as the youngest, and ay especial feyorite with the children. A. Prussian of noble family sits ou my efi. ‘To the disgust of his aristocratic relations he chose the life of a merchant in India in preference to the career cfa younger sop. in the army; end hasbeen so sticcessful that he now returns home with an ample fortune. Te believes in Bismarck and German unity, King William and a constitutional monas- chy, but is more demoerntic, ht whe says, that’ when he left Gerwuny fifteen years agogphe head steward, or “ Yaitre d’ hotel,” who is known tous by the Rayal ftifle of Victor Rmanuvel, is continually making the mosi. comical mistakes in misunderstanding ovr orders. But he is something ofa weg, and the twinkle of his keen black cyes iumplies that he enjoys the fnn as inuch as ourselves.
Our Ameriean Cousin” can compisia of ne luck of courtesy on the part of the Eng lish fellow passengers; but their ignoranet: of America is anusing, and fer exceeds that afwell educated Americaus about India. One of them told me he had it on good au- thority that the negroes had all refused to work, and the whole South was in a dread- ful state of anarchy and desolation. ‘Phat he expected to bear of their marching on Washington, gotting possession of the gor- ernment, aud making @ negro president! Ewas scrionsly asked if there was not a State in the South, somewhere near the imonth of the Bfississippl, called “ Susianns.” ‘fhe English in the Bast nearly all sympa- thized with the rebels,and I have been moved to give them pretty strong doses of the Northern side of the question of the
