Topee And Turban Or Here And There in India Microform
Topee And Turban Or Here And There in India Microform
H a Herbert Andrews Newell
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Frequent pools of water flashed like so many mirrors in the sunlight. Scrub softened the red sides of s^ many-pointed ridge. Far away a lonely hill caught the eye. Mysterious stone walls imprisoned its summit. Above them rose the spire of a Hindu temple and a lofty flagstaff of the curious kind known as divajasthamba, a sign peculiar to shrines where the god is carried in procession. Near the sixteenth milestone the car passed Tambarram, a little railway station. Tree-clad hills showed greenish...-grey against the horizon and every- where the plain sparkled with the play of sunbeams upon water. The effect was magical, investing the wild landscape with a strange beauty and brilliance. Just before the seventeenth milestone the thorough- fare traversed the railway, here a narrow track of a single line. Next the car ran between a tall straight avenue of palms. At either side the red earth was carpeted with the vivid green of paddy fields. Soon these disappeared and the palms gave place to spreading rain trees, amid which an occasional 164 TOPEE AND TURBAN portia stood out by reason of its silky yellow flowers, A herd of cows, lean as the kine of Joseph's dream, and some buffaloes were, with difficulty, induced to move aside for the car.
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