jherry

Updated: June 25, 2025

Here the days and nights are of equal length and it rains about every day; it has a mixed population, Chinamen, Malays, Europeans and a few Americans, mebby a hundred thousand in all. We didn't stay long here, but rode out in what they called a Jherry lookin' like a dry goods box drawed by a couple of ponies. Josiah sez to me, "I am glad that the Malay coolers wear a little more than the Japans."

Marietta Holley - Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife