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Show IN PICTURESQUE INDIA. A Moit Womlerrul Nli;lit Alum; Allpnr llnnil, Our way wns nlong tho Allpur Bond, the big main nrtcry, where cver.y hour ttfeJ of (he day ox carls nnd strings of cam- r els Jostlu ckkas filled to overflowing with fat nnd complnceut natives, who Bccm gifted with some spechit faculty for balancing themselves on nVw Inches of splnsh-bourd; tongas, too, with wretched ponies, which decline to move nt nny other pace than the iral-lop, iral-lop, nud endless sticnnie of transport nud supply carts with mules than lean In upon each otici' nt such an angle thnt you ncer cense wofideilng how they iimnngo to keep theliVootlng nt nil In the grensy state of road whi'it Hie lililstliueli have Just watered It, fiiys I,. Haven Hill, In the 1'all Mall (Inzctte. A most wonderful sight, thnt Allpur road every race In India passing nloug, nnd nlwnys In n hurry. As we drew neur tho Frontier nud Ponjnuli camps, one letimrkcd the difference Iu the types hcen gu tho road tall, hooknosed, hook-nosed, llrrcc-IooUiug men from Cabul nnd Peshawar, with lilt;u conical caps, , with black waistcoats or yellow fur-lincd'JiK'kcts; fur-lincd'JiK'kcts; over long shirts and baggy bag-gy trousers; loullsh overconlcd tribes from Ollglt, looking more like Caucasians Cau-casians thnn Inhabitants of India, In their woolen caps nnd her-lless boots, seeming to terrify the sightseeing- Ita-bus, Ita-bus, who wandered meekly, hand In hnnd, quite ns Interested ns Iho Kug-llsli Kug-llsli glubc trotter. After breakfast with (he political agent the fanatical Alknll Sikhs weto shown us, with their strange blue head-drrsses, head-drrsses, nearly three fret high, ornn- -jfl nicnted with axes, ci-cxccut-shapcd i knives, bearing nxes, bowHliml iutowh, spears, daggers nnd swouls; with their chain armor, breastplates nud shields, they suggested a traveling museum rather tnan wnrrlorx. Here, also, were the -devil dancers from the Tibetan border, wearing grotesque innsks, whose clumsy clhneing suggested Ihf ravings of somo virago in nn East '"'nil slum rather than anything diabolic. |
