The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-12-18

DOMESTIC ARRANGEMENTS IN lEDA.-
my house is called bungalow, which !
chose as being the most economical.
bungalow is matched cottage, with only one
ground story. The floors Of the rooms are
not made Of wood. but sort oil cement
which looks like stone. The house stands
in the midst Of large field called COM
pound, which belongs to me, and the ser
wants dwellings are scattered around. i
have flower and kitchen garden, fowl
house ard place for goats, kitchen. stable,
cow house, and banyan-tree. The path
ways through the grass are of fine gravel,
and the hedges are composed almost entire
" of aIoes and cactuses, mixed with very
sweet smelling flower shrub, and here and
there a bamboo, which is most beautiful
tree, resembling very tall weeping willow.
The sensitive plant grows wild about the
compound, and bears very pink flower re-
ssmbling that Of the red cloves. The banyan-
tree is abundant here. Each branch pro-
iects stalks downwards, which take root IN
The earth, and after few years one tree re-
sembles cluster, and covers large space
of ground. ] have several aloes in my gar
den which are Just Towering. They have
thrown up a straight stalk about twenty
feet high. A large cactus is now in bloom
1t is about ten feet high, and each stem or
leaf is thicker round than my leg. This
kind bears a very beautiful large white fiow-
er, which opens only at night. In my
kitchens garden are the mango, the plantain,
Indian corn. pineapple trees, and many
others. Carpets are not used here, but the
floors are covered instead with India mating.
In each room is punkah. which have be
fore described We procure water for
drinking from a large tank or pond; and as
we cannot purchase meat, have provided
myself with thirty-6ve ducks, sixty fowls,
four goats, and three kids, which last are al
Imost ready to eat; the goats we shall keep
for their milk. The Judge made me pres
ent Of beautiful fawn Of the spotted deer,
which is becoming very tame. | am Just
going to Join mutton-club. -Four persons
enter into partnership, and agree to keep a
small flock Of sheep; one OF which is killed
twice a-week, and then each partner is pro-
vided with quarter Of mutton, and each
lin turn has the liver, heart and head. A
gentleman yesterday sent me four guinea
fowls, and another has promised me siI
pigeons as soon as have place to keep
them in. have Just begun to make col
lection Of insects, snakes, and butterflies
and moths, Of the most beautiful kind. The
chameleon is very common, and changes its
color according TO the temper it is in.
have one which is generally Of brilliant
green: but fits anger be reused, it becomes
covered with large black spots, and when
hungry with white spots. These are the
only changes in its color | have as yet OBJ
served; but nave seen others yellow; 9th.
ers, again, black, with yellow spots. 1t is
said that each chameleon has ten different
variations Of color. There is to be seen
here lghtbrown lizard, called the blood
sucker, which is constantly running about
the walls in the rooms. Whenever we take
up a paper or book, we are sure to find
two or three cockrosches under it-not such
cockroaches as you may see in England
= but great ones three or four inches long
: The gasshopPer come into the house il
numbers, and grow to an uncommon size
You may hear them chinuping half annie off
The ants, of which there are three sorts, are
great nuisance. Every house swarml
with them; and unless the legs Of tables
drawers. &c, are kept constantly standing il
Jars Of water, they attack the dinner-cloths
and in fact everything they can reach; LIST
there is a very small red ant, whose Bit
causes very hard red swelling, which con
tinues very painful for some days 2nd, I
: great black ant, about the size Of an Eng
lish wasp, which bites, but does not sting
Sd, the white ant rather larger than the
common English ant, which come in I
: swarm, and in one night will devour table
or a shelf full Of books. You may come
down in the morning and find your books
apparently all right, but no sooner do yo'
touch them than they all crumble away ID
powder.-Acland Manners and Custom
of India.