The Timely Retreat; Or, a Year in Bengal Before the Mutinies
The Timely Retreat; Or, a Year in Bengal Before the Mutinies
Madeline Anne Wallace Dunlop
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Being nmrnmch bektar aoqua^vted with the language and charabtenstics of die natives^ our plan was to look over the Ikt of chokees andjrtati(»i% with all the distanccB marked (fiuansbed ym by the d&k BifgeaA)^ and IBtofaiiig on cme about sevenky miles oS^ hold up a rupee before the coachmanV eyes, and say, £bt instance, ^^Mynpoori^ bhote jol^e^' (very quickly). The man always grinaMdy and undeistood pwfectly weil wlmt was meant^ so it was not faiafiEUik if we did VOL. n. L Digitized by Google 14...6 THE TIMELY BBTBBAT ; OB, not go at a full gallop the whole way ; and if we were detained too long at a chokee, a warning ^^ Nai backsheesh^' sent us on again with redoubled speed homewards. It is impossible to understand the &11 meaning and feeling of rest contained in that one short word " home I" imtil by weary wan* derings and hours of londiness you learn to turn to it with a yearning that fills your being; how inspiriting was it to think that each mile passed shortened our distance from those dear ones who, in imagination, were tracking our steps 1 Our former d&k experience enabled us now to manage capitally, the only variation being, that on arriving at each bungalow our first care was to have the precious basket containing our beloved cats brought down fi'pm the roof of our gharrie, and the poor occupants released firom their dose captivity and chained in the verandah of our bmsakfast-room, where their hunger was Digitized by Google A TEAB IN BENGAL.
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