Identifier: indianlifeintown01comp (find matches)
Title: Indian life in town and country
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Compton, Herbert, 1853-1906
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Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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articles of camp-furniture, which canbe telescoped or folded into portable dimensions.Indeed, you will sometimes see superimposed ona couple of camels a variety of beds, tables, chairs,and chests of drawers (these take into halves, andare slung one on each side), which, when openedand set out, suggest the requirement of a smallpantechnicon van for their removal. Generally aportion of the poultry-yard is carried during theseexcursions, and a goat or two driven along tosupply milk. And when the camp is pitchedunder a shady mango tope, or grove of trees, thedhurries or carpets laid, the ingenious collapsiblefurniture arrayed in its expanded usefulness, thecamp-lamps shedding their bright glow withinthe tent, a crackling fire blazing in front of thedoor, why, there are very few habitations for whichyou would wish to change this travelling one. The cold-weather tour of the head official of adistrict, who is in effect its governor, is a sort oftriumphal progress. He lives on the fat of the
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I ;i Out-of-Door Life 229 land; at his nod transport and provisions of everydescription appear in plenty; for him, the bestkhubber where game is to be found, and beatersgalore to drive it out of its haunts. At eachhalting-place the headman comes to offer himwelcome, and the finest the village can afford,and all the ryots assemble to make their salaams.His tour is like an old English visitation, and,if an energetic officer, he probably does more goodin his district during these few cold weathermonths, when he is brought face to face with itsrequirements, than during the rest of the year.For they bring him into touch with the people ina way that can never occur in station life. I know few people who fail to appreciate tent-life in India. It carries with it a sensation of itsown of novelty, freedom, and movement. Hereto-day, and there to-morrow! Away from thecivilisation of the head station, and in a delight-ful atmosphere of unconventionality! Not until aman has spent several long month

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