| Show A NEW WAR wab n IN INDIA th the tho e en english gli sh says the new york evening fost post have another indian war on their hands it is not a mutiny that Is to be suppressed this time but an independent state never under British rule that is to be conquered and annexed nho Bho otaru otari a poor and isolated state hitherto exempt from the ravages of foreign wars has not only turned the cold shoulder to an envoy from england who penetrated pc nitrated its dreary wastes but actually threatened him 1 so that he lie conceived that his life was in danger and hastily retired for this and other of fences ent england land declares war against bhoodan Bho otan and the are to be footed down down the hill of adversity the history of this country of bhoodan is interesting the best authorities say that it is about two hundred and fifty miles melesin in length by ninety nive five in breadth with an area of sixty four thousand thousand square n miles and population of seven undred hundred li and fifty thousand souls having bengal proper on the south assam to the southeast and to the north like the highlands of scotland it is a place of mountain fastnesses fast nesses and wild glens giens lens its people whom few white me men have seen are rude barbarians whose arms are the bow and arrow acs ans an and t lie the spear and who are of tartar blood with broad triangular faces small oblique eyes and yellow skin their reia rell religion I 1 is buddhist of a modified type ail all and the country swarms with mendicant priests the hills produce oo 00 d iron iron I 1 building stone is abundant ense ense virgin forests ommer offer inexhaustible supplies of lumber and a narrow belt of valley land yields tropical fruits the towns are few faw but are commanded by vy castellated stron strongholds strong holds which are said to be formidable the rulers are a deb raj rap ail all who is tile tiie the actual sovereign as well as the principal merc mere merchant llant ilant and a dharma rajah najah or nominal king who has no civil power but is invested with a surprising number of divine attributes |
