Identifier: lifeworkinindiaa00stewrich (find matches)
Title: Life and work in India; an account of the conditions, methods, difficulties, results, future prospects and reflex influence of missionary labor in India, especially in the Punjab mission of the United Presbyterian Church of North America
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Stewart, Robert, 1839-1915
Subjects: United Presbyterian Church of North America Missions -- India
Publisher: Philadelphia : Pearl Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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wkward attempts to rise and resist theprocess, furnish an impressive and sometimes an amusing entertain-ment for strangers. When all is ready and the caravan begins to move in a body it pre-sents a curious spectacle. The Sahib and his family in a two-wheeledcart or covered spring-wagon, the Miss Sahibas on ponies or in a tum-tum, the native Christian helpers, mounted as best they can be or notmounted at all, the servants on foot, and the camels with their irregu-lar and motley loads—tent poles, tent coverings, boxes, bundles,trunks, bags, tables, chairs, carpets, chests of drawers and charpais be-ing all jumbled together without regard to symmetry or anything elsebut the need of a balance—form a cavalcade whose appearance uponan American highway would attract a crowd of observers. For some time the journey, forsooth, lies over a good road and isdestitute of remarkable incident; but when bypaths, streams, villagesor ravines are reached the case is likely to be different. Frequently
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ITINERA TING EXPERIENCES 187 the road is so rough that walking is preferred to riding in a wagon.Sometimes a wheel breaks and compels the occupants of a tum-tum todismount. Sometimes a camel gets frightened, or stuck in the mud,or loses his balance in ascending an embankment, and sad havoc ismade of the load which he carries. Occasionally a horse, or a wheeledconveyance, sinks into a quicksand when crossing a river and onlywith the greatest difficulty can be extricated. Sometimes a rider isthrown from his pony, or his cart upsets, and he gets a sprained ankle,or meets with even a worse disaster. Sometimes a dust storm or ashower of rain appears and driveseverybody to seek the nearest andbest possible shelter. And, as the pilgrims jog along, in-teresting sights greet their vision :—first, the almost continuous stream oftravel leading in the opposite direc-tion ; people of every faith and casteand style of dress, or undress, on foot;babies carried astride the shoulders ofmen or the si

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