New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-03
sAyAgD TAYLoR's LETTERS.
Xxx.
The sinil-Carf.

4 taken passage Agra
precisely resembling the baughy cart but with the ad-
vantage Of greater speed The distance TO be travelled
was SO miles and the fare 80 rupees which is consid-
cred very cheap in India bat would be very dear IN any
other country The average rate Of speed from eight
10 nine miles hour that the NAL reaches Agra in
little than two days from lndOre but few NOR
tai frames would be equal to such work. travellers
allow ed make the journey in several stages by stop
Ing at any Of the dawk the road and waiting
for the next days mail
The mail cart propelled BY ,xO horses cae OF thich
il an outrgger This facilitates the ascent Of sght ee-
vafiuns in the road except when the two animals choose
10 move in different directions which is by means
re occurrence However, found that could retain
nv position on the box without holding fast with both
hands and this was great improvement on the baaghy
cart We set of at full gaop, over hard well beaten
road and through a rolling open country. The twilight
died away and the young moon went down before we
reached Dewas twentytour miles from Indore, and
thencefoth We ealoped by starlight Ever the same
rolling upland, thny inhabited and scantiy cultivated
broad belts OF Jungle, more dreary and stunted than IN
the regions south of the Nebudda and crossed by fire.
auent abrupt nullas Occasionally passed low ranges
of stony hills where the rate of speed caused most
ntOlerabe jotng The native villages slumberng under
the broad of peepul and banyan trees, we're pie
turesque enough in the gloom, which hid their dirt and
defOrmity while the grotesque cones OF their temples
the only objects that showed with any distncness
The silent driver always blew discoriant blast his
horn while passing through these villages, aud on ap
preaching tie pOststation which from five to
miles apart We always found few sleepy groons In
waiting with the fresh horses, which were slowly har-
nessed to our cart and after going through their exercise
of backing and rearing prang forward with galyanic
start and with impetus which did not cease until we
drew up at the next post
Thus the night wore away. My only amusement was
in watching the Great Bear he slowly wheeled around
the pOestar, for in my previous watches had learned
10 measure the hours of the night by his progress The
driver now and then made remark very profound no
doubt i'll Misunderstood it, always asseDed TO avoid
discussion which would have been embarrassing and if he
addressed question 10 me, invariably answered: L
cont know" There is no use in telling these people
that you don't understand their language for they abber
away to you just the same as ever II is much better
to make short and despOtic of the few words you
know and restrict the conversation to those remarks
which are indispensable. Aswe proceeded nOrthward,
noticed that Arabic words frequently used The
form of salutaton was the usual saaam aelkO0m of
the east and the driver exclaimed each time that he
mounted the " in the name of the most mercful
God In addition to this be frequently touched the
rim of the wheel and his forehead alternately several
times with his fore6nger-prObaby as charm to pre-
vent accidents, and devouty hoped might be eiica
cious, for we had no other safeguard. Had the axle
snapped in the of the baughy cart, should not
have gotten on so easily.
When morning came, there was little change in the
features of the landscape that could have believed my
self still in sight ~ IndOre and yet had made
than hundred miles during the night was quite be-
numbed from the GOODNESS of the air and began to feel
the effects of the Ots had undergone. Soon after sun
rise the driver discovered that one of the nchpins
broken off so that the wheel kept its place from
force of habit The driver asked me whether he should
proceed but as | knew he only put the question for
forms sake, since the mail could not be detained, told
him to drive on which he did, in the of the most
nerciiu God" Our speed after this, was more furious
than before, and mad galOp OF six miles, during which
constantly kept myself braced in attitude to spring out,
shaFa f.Ffp nafa
enough to find substitute for the pin During the day
We passed two maicarts, lying by the roadside, with
their axles broken.
Nothing could exceed the mOnotOny Of the scenery,
which now in the dry season, bleak and des0late
aspect During the rains when the soil is hidden under
deuee of herbage and the ragged shrubbery OF the
unges into bloom and foliage, IL must pre-
sent very different appearance. Except IN the shell
tered hOOws, where the palm still Ourlshed there was
no token of tropical climate. found more interest
in observing the crowds of natives whom met the
road In addition to the different Indian races who had
now become tolerably familiar to me- there were oc
casiCnay menof taller stature lighter complexion and
bold, unsubmssiye expression OF face, whom took to
be Sikhs or Afghans.
About noon We reached place called Bursud, where
there was travellers bungalow, occupied by an English
family. A lady standing in the verandah and took
of my hat to her passed POllteness Is its own
reward; for had stopped 10 change horses
than the ladys husband made his appearance and very
pOlltey asked NE 10 lake some TtUtsnI1tnts
ytation timely tor the appetite of hungry man is
not satisfied with biscuits, (Which all my store but
had determined TO reach GooDah halfway to Agra, be-
fore resting, and could not detain the mail only
ton the circumstance another instance OF the hOsp
tality Of the English in India.
BY this time was in that feversh and excltable
diton which shows that ones powers of endurance
beginning TO give way | was bruised and shaken from
head to foot racked with aches and palms. and above
all, exqusitey tortured by small iron rod which ran
around the box whereOn sat, 10 prevent being
throw into the road The mark OF that rod is still i'm
printed ON lily flesh. However, in the afternoon we
came into billy country where the road was little
better. and | experienced some relief The hills were
covered with jungle, but there was cultivation IN the
valleys between, especially about the little town Of Ra
jOOrgh, which is the residence of Rajah. IL is q
walled town of rectangular form, with round towers at
the corners but the walls have tumbed down in various
places making unsighty breaches and disclosing the
poverty Of the dwellings within.
A short distance further We overlook large con-
course of natives all of whom carried long bamboo poles
in their hands Among them several cheprassees
Government ser ants aud two or three sepOys They
all drew up in line Oh each side Of the road making the
most profound salaams passed between their ranks
like our great Elijah POgram, when he is borne trium-
phantly through the masses Of the unterred was at
loss TO understand ts display, until at the end of the
cOncOuTse, | came upon magnificent elephant, 1.-THE
largest ever saw when decided that these must be
the attendants of the Rajah of RajOOrgh. The whole
thing explained however by the appearance Of
English gentle men, and some attendants carrying wild
boar They had been out tiger bunting and the crowd
Of natives with banhOOs the heaters, who are
employed in Inoa, instead OF dogs, to sweep the lnges
and start the beasts from their c0yers One Of the gen.
tlemen afterward learned, of the most noted
tigerseyers in the country and had just recovered from
being df lduy cbaS ed up" by panther an accident
whch has famed him Tor lie He had suffered fever lock-
jaw paralysis and partial modification yet Outived them
I'll, 70 the amazement Of everybody and the dismay of
the tigers.