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From time to time each receives chests filled with spices, silks, and other Malay products, and sends back in return European articles of utility to the rajah, for such is the rank that Hassan has now acquired on the river. A merry party were sitting in the veranda of one of the largest and handsomest bungalows of Poonah.
There is a well built brick Chinese trading quarter, or "bazaar," the Europeans have comfortable bungalows, and the present population is said to number twelve thousand.
India has been to me, as the average American, a dream of terraced ghauts, of banyans and bungalows, of Taj Mahals and tigers, of sacred rivers and subterranean temples, and and that sort of thing. I come here and land in a big cotton-yard. I ask myself, 'Have I left Jonesville dear Jonesville! on the other side of the world, in order to sit on an antipodal cotton-bale?"
A few moments later the back door of one of the bungalows opened, and a figure in a broad-striped bathing suit flung down the paddock, cleared the stile, rushed through the tussock grass into the hollow, staggered up the sandy hillock, and raced for dear life over the big porous stones, over the cold, wet pebbles, on to the hard sand that gleamed like oil. Splish-Splosh! Splish-Splosh!
And there was yet a third Delhi, hard by these two; yet curiously aloof: official, Anglo-Indian Delhi, of bungalows and clubs and painfully new Government buildings. Little scope here for imaginative excursions, but much scope for thought in the queer sensation, that beset him, of seeing his father's people, as it were, through his mother's eyes.
Jones's secretary. No doubt the fellow had watched them out of the forest, and now, unless he took the trouble to go back some distance and fetch a considerable circuit inland over the clearing, he was bound to walk out into the open space before the bungalows. Heyst did, indeed, imagine at one time some movement between the trees, lost as soon as perceived.
Altogether she attracted a good deal of attention, but never for a moment did she attract the attention of the boy with the beautifully-brushed hair, who was some thousands of miles away in the baking plains of Hindostan, amid deserted bungalows, seething bazaars, and riotous barrack squares, listening to the throbbing of tom-toms and the distant rattle of musketry.
Men as a rule understand nothing of the agonies endured by a woman who must face the unfriendly stares of other women in a gown that she feels will invite pitiless criticism. To the east the hill of Jalapahar towered a thousand feet above Darjeeling, crowned with bungalows and barracks.
"I went over to Parry, but he was still too drunk to understand me. I was trying to rouse him when I heard shouts and ran out on the verandah. All the coolies, men, women, and children, were streaming towards the bungalows, mad with excitement, screaming and yelling. The men and even most of the boys carried weapons. The Brahmins were leading them. They made for Chunerbutty's house first.
Contrast between landing at Bombay and at Calcutta First feelings those of disappointment Aspect of the place improves Scenery of the Island magnificent, abounding with fine Landscapes Luxuriance and elegance of the Palms Profusion and contrast of the Trees Multitude of large Houses in Gardens Squalid, dirty appearance of the Native Crowd Costume of the Natives Inferior to the Costume of Bengal Countenances not so handsome The Drive to the Fort The Burrah Bazaar Parsee Houses "God-shops" of the Jains General use of Chairs amongst the Natives Interior of the Native Houses The Sailors' Home The Native Town Improvements The Streets animated and picturesque Number of Vehicles The Native Females The Parsee Women The Esplanade Tents and Bungalows The Fort The China Bazaar A Native School Visit to a Parsee Warehouse Seal ornamental China-ware Apprehension of Fire in the Fort Houses fired by Rats Illumination of Native Houses Discordant noise of Native Magic The great variety of Religions in Bombay productive of lamp-lighting and drumming.
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