Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-01-10

runs along side. On roads where no
bearers are posted, and where special ex-
petition is not wanted, single set of
bearers is employed, who go journies of
any length, and average thirty miles a
day, travelling either in the day or night,
as YOU prefer. chose to travel only from
late in the afternoon till early in the morn
ing, not only because the sun was to me
exceedingly oppressive, but because it
prevented loss Of time, In locomotion, and
gave me the day to be with the missioni-
ries at the different stations. On two Or
three occasions, was obliged to spend
the day at bungalows, and greatly enjoy-
ed the coo. quietude of these resting
places. The solitude was delightful a'd
refreshing to my spirit, as we'll as adv;n-
tageous in enabling me TO bring up ar
rearages in memorandums.
Leaving Madras on the thirteenth Of
Feb. 1887, proceeded from forty to sixty
miles each night This mode of con-
veyance has indeed the advantage Of a
recumbent posture; but the motion is
wearisome, and, with some bearers, even
painful. But it is the best that can be
devised, especially as the roads do not
every where permit wheel -carriages to
pass.
The road led through VilIac" 6rry, Ca
Iiabaucum, Trepaloor, Allatoor, Maubi-
Iiveram, Sadras, Alumbura, Conjimere
Collacoopum, POndicherry, Cuddalore
Poondiacoopum, Chillumbrum, SheaIly
Myaverum, TriyciIungaud, om5aconum
Paupanasum, and numerous smaller
towns, and across the rivers, Paular OF
PaIaur, Cunnabaur, Gaddelum, Pettan
aur, VeIaur, CoIeroon. Covery, &c: Sew
eral of these are mouths Of the Cavery.
The first stage kept US along the sea
size, every surge laving the bearers feet
and my old acquaintance, Ocean, the on
object Of my regard. The rest of thu
way is through wild and poor country
though with many towns and villages
Immediately around Pondicherry, aud al
the country, from thence to Tanjore, is
garden. From Tanjore to Trichinopoly
IS desert, which extends in a broal
stripe, 10 cape Comorin. The district O
country through which this road carried
me, forms the central portion of the Car
matte, and comprehends the former do
minions of the Nabob of Arcot 1t came
under the British power in 1901.
Pondtcherry.
!: A few hours were devoted to a rapi(
survey of Pondcherry. 1t is reputed t,
be much the handsomest town in India
t No native huts dis6gure the streets, a
f these are all placed separately in tn
suburbs. There is but little business nov
done here, and l saw but one foreig
vessel in the road-stead The Jesuits hav
college and church here, and tn
Capuchins a church. Many of the ma
tives have adopted the Catholic faith. bu
it has done little for their improvement
The French are prohibited, by treaty
from keeping many troops, and the Who'll
city looks silent and languishing.
Cuddalo7e.
Cuddalore, on the Panaur, ffty-tw
miles from Pondicherry, is the first ste
ton on this route where there are Eng
lish. 1t is one of the great stations wher
soldiers are placed, who, from havin
married native women, or other causes
> choose 10 remain in the country atte
serving out their time. or becoming invs
: lids. A few effective troops also al
stationed here. The Episcopal chaplai
| received me with great kindness, in tn
| absence of the missionary. The invalid
? and pensioners are obliged to attend woI
, ship, and with the gentry form larg
; and attentive congregation. The MI
g sionary, Rev. Mr. Jones, devotes hmse
! to the natives. This was station of tn
IChristian knowledge Society so early g
e 1887, but has not been constantly occt
S pied. MIR. Jones arrived in 1884, and
= able to preach in the vernacular. H
h found Mr. Rosen's church, and 10 school
l. which Mr.. HallowelI, chaplain of tn
>. station, had superintended for five year
e He has baptized some Adults, and man
J children, and increased the number {
, schools. One of these is for girls. Tt
< whole now contain $40 children. M
Jones has two Tamul services on tt
n Sabbath, and two in the week. The COZ
0 gregation consists chiefly Of nomin'
e Christians. They amount to more tina
n three hundred, among whom are man
4 native wives of the European soldiers.
+ Trangue6Gr.
h AS Twas 50 near Tranquebar, it SCENE
!, almost duty to visit it. But there
d now almost no visible effect of mlsslonar
# labor there. Nor is there any mlssons
rv-the last one having accepted tt
office of chaplain The schools are COZ
S tinued. but there are few nominal Chri
1t t1ans, and still fewer real ones.
e Aspect Of the Country.
Il A more beautiful country than tn
e from CuddaIore to Tanjore can hardly |
1t imagined. The dense population, ar
d rich soil, give their energies to each othe
?, and produce a scene of surprising love-
rosn H., lnknr hnu-ounr &c Al rrr-;r