Indien Impressionen, mit einigen Anmerkungen von Ceylon während eines Winters tour, 1906-7 [microform]. Viel von Thecountry, oder so etwas, sondern eine vage Idee von Theplace, besonders unter den Versicherungsschutz einer oxtonga, von denen zwei Fahrzeuge vermittelt uns und ourbao^a^e für die Reisenden Bungalow über eine mileoff, der kleine Zebus entlang Trotten mit forschem Tempo asfast wie Ponys, und viel besser Konditioniert thanany Tonga Ponys, die wir in Indien gesehen. Bei dem Bungalow fanden wir eine englische Dame andgentleman, einem neu eingetroffenen Beamten und seiner Frau, die noch nicht ein Haus - Wer thendining wurden durch Kerzenlicht auf der Veranda - bekam ich

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India impressions, with some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7 [microform] . much of thecountry, or get anything but a vague idea of theplace, especially when under the cover of an oxtonga, two of which vehicles conveyed us and ourbao^a^e to the travellers bungalow about a mileoff, the little zebus trotting along at a brisk pace asfast as ponies, and much better conditioned thanany tonga ponies we saw in India. At the bungalow we found an English lady andgentleman, a newly arrived official and his wife, who had not yet got a house—who were thendining by candle light on the verandah—in posses-sion of the best room, and had to make the best ofit in a small side room, poorly furnished, and withno mosquito nets. We got some soda and milkand turned in, but, alas, the beds were hard as nailsand the mosquitoes troublesome and strong on thewing, while the temperature went up to 80 degreesagain ! MADRAS AND THE SOUTH 271 After breakfast the next morning; we eot a car-riage (which was a considerable improvement bothas to vehicle and horse to the one at Tanjore), and. TRICHINOPOLY—OX TONGA—VITA BREVIS ! drove towards the fort, which stands conspicuouslyon a bold rock rising abruptly from the plain.Passing through the native bazaar we crossed overa long bridge, which spanned a very broad riverthronged with bathers, and people washing clothes, and watering cattle, all busy in the stream whichwas quite shallow, not more than waist high. Thisbridge had been designed and built by an English 272 INDIA IMPRESSIONS engineer, somewhere in the forties. It was of redsandstone, and our driver pointed out a stone in thecoping inscribed to certain English officers whoserved under Clive, and helped to lay the founda-tions of the British Empire in India in 1750-4. At about two miles from Trichinopoly we cameto the great Temple of Seringham. Thatchednative huts, forming a sort of bazaar, led up toand were clustered about the great gates, whichresembled the entrance to the Temp

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