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Letters from India

1872

— has written to me for a comb which is exactly the very thing the natives can do in perfection ; but then I must catch a jeweller and he is 14rought to Government House and our sircar buys the turquoises and weighs the gold and sits by and targes the man at his work and as it is a simple plain straightforward comb it will be very well done anti worth its weight in gold ; but a set of or [...] The paper was ciculated to the la7cTies of the committee and Fanny and I and a majority of the ladies put' our names to a resolution that we accepted their contribution with thanks &c. [...] ; and the aides-de-camp who had clearly not listened for the conclUsion whispered to know.whether it was a charity they ought to give to ; and in the meanwhile the service lasted two hours and a half on ore of the very hottest days we have had this year. [...] The Archdeacon was sent for two days ago to see a boy the son of a friend who was dying ; and yesterday they sent to tell him that the boy had died at three in the morning and asked him to pertain' the funeral which is always here within twenty-four hours of the death. [...] I told Captain — to desire the steamer would bring up the Soonamookie '—our yacht this time—as the Europeans will not let the native servants go in the cabin of the steamer and the old kansamfth and some of the old men were half baked in the small boats ; so when the Soonamookie ' appeared Wright and Jones and Mars and Giles all announced their gracious intention of going by water as if they
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