fate-cursed

Updated: June 5, 2025

Ah, the little fate-cursed Indian brats, some of them wearing rings in their noses and not much else, who send the message through me to you think of them to-night and be glad that to you the lines have fallen in pleasanter places. Salaam, indeed, O happy little folk of my own homeland across the seas! Peace be to you! Jeypore, India.

Clarence Hamilton Poe - Where Half The World Is Waking Up : The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions