New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-22

son who was 70 furnish me with pllahluin aHi Veif
ers the next morning, but found the thing quite im
! possible.
sro,e befines and set ont TO find the agent for Z
O'Clock tie time appointed for starting AFTER end
less questions and walk Of three miles was hnaily
directed Ia house, in the door OF "eh 'ood Que
Of the meanes; individuals In appearance that ever be-
held. He vas en- Ess,-Indisn Of dirty Complexion,
urvsshed ptted with he smallpox, mpine and dressed
in vile cloak covered with grease ami patches he
informed that the bearers ready and ponied 20
the pasnquin which standing in the verandah Inc
mans apIearance made suspicious and thOu1 Ihere
vas really paaDquin feared that before travelling lar
] should find il TO be little buggy. tie promised TO
serd II the hotel whittier FASTENED, expecting 70
find breakfast ready, as | had ordered. VAN nope
There is Do equivalent for "punctuaity IN the hlnd)s
tdnee tongue / waited an hour the paanqan arrived
I | stormed in English, for unfortunately. knew No
snathenas in their language but the eooAs were
miracle Of calmness and deliberGti0n. When breakfast
finally came was obliged to eat few mouthiul' hur'
redy and depart lest should give the bearers along
/ the road chance 10 claim demurrage
Ieerut resembles the other Indian environments IN
NOT respects 1t has a number of handsome bungalows
besides church With very ambitious splre, ana OWING
abundance Of good water its gardens ana orehards
are much lUxuriant than those OF Agra anu ein
Ii must be both an agreeable and healthy place OF RESI-
depce The sky was clear after the rain Of yesterday
and the dir delightfully."- cool and bracing though colder
than desired rode with the palanqun widows openi
and found that by prOppiDg myself against carpet0ag
could get teefsbe view of the country on both sides
There little variety in the scenery, was sun on
the great Plain Of Hndostan noticed, however, some
change in the vegetation The tamarind and tsreePam
bat rarely to be the peepu and sane we're the
principal trees. The wheat was much more backward
than in the warmer plains about Agra
had eight bearers, four Of whom only carried the
paanquin at time They relieved each other about
every half nile and all Of them gave place 10 new set,
at the end OF the stage which varied from eight 70 tea
miles There Was besides, mussalchee or tofchbear
err who during the day carries the superhuous garments
of the bearers and demands backsheesh when they
changed The given is four annas (l2t cents),
to each Of bearers. They usually average about
four miles hour good roads, carrying the palanlun
along Oh slow sliding trOt, every step Of which they
accompany with gruht do not know more disagree
abe method OF travelling t as necessary to preserve
nice equilibrium a. in Turkish caique, and a. you lie
at full length in box, you cannot turn your
cranped limbs without thTusting your body too far on
one side or other The oting motion of the paan
Qun is unpleasant and the measured grunts OF the
bearers give you the idea that they are about 70 drop
ven through fatigue, while nothing be annoy
ing than their constant stOppages 70 shift the pole from
one shoulder 10 another. Sometimes they grOan out,
"juidee jdO :" 90 quickly and when they meet any
body in the road, they cry; "Tskecare We haVea Lord
Inside"
Thus logged on all day, through tame and monot-
country. looked continually TO the north, for
glimpse Of the Himalayas and once thought saw
sharp White peaks, but they gradually moved together
and changed their iJrms Toward evening my bearers
stopped village which, they said was the end Of their
chOkt stage but that the new bearers who ought 10
have been in waiting, had gone on 70 another village.
about mile distant TOavOid the delay OF waiting ther
return, they offered 70 take on to the village tor
additional backsheesh and | consented When ar
rive however aud found the bearers IN Readiness
aked them: Is this the beginning Of your chOkee, or
the village behind Us ?" This is the place, they all
exclaimed: whereupOn the others quite abashed az
finding their trckery exposed aud their expected back
sheesh lost At sunset / passed through Mozulernug-
gar large town about hirysI miles from Meerut AT
the next ohOkee beyond IT, delayed an hour and
hall by the nonapptaance OF the bearers My men De-
gan to shout and the cries taken up by one person
and another I'LL they seemed to radate through the
whole country, and fill the air, far aud The
were last gathered together and went on by torch
light. I be night clear and cold and lay mufled
up cramped and shiyerng until arrived at this place
about A. III.
There was Government Bungalow, to which the
bearers conveyed me swoke the kinded
cocosnut lamp and left me removed everything from
the padnqun the fastened the doors and then
lay down upon the charpOy, where slept tl morning
On awakng my first sensation that OF hunger, Tor
had tasted tweIty-our hours so summoned the choke
dar and ordered him to get breakfast for NE. BOhH
achcLa (very we) said he aud then went on TO make
some statement the most prominent words OF which we're
RLurre6 yurrdr." / asked him for tea, for eggs for
fowl but though he always replied very we'll there was
sure 10 follow something about ghurreeb purwar" At
last decided that these words referred to some neces-
sary without which be could NOT provide breakfast
thought OF the Arabic words guTrd gOuTd ana gcefO
water skin and il quite PLAIN that "ghurreeb Pur
"vaI" must mean either tea-kettle or fry ngpan.
"We" said when be had repeated the words for the
twentieth time have no ghureeb purwar; you must
get one. Go and borrow one from the Sahlbs The
man stared at me in wild way, aud went Oft but not 20
provide breakfast have learned since that ghurreeb
purwar was q title addressed To my sell, and means
Protecto or of the Poor" IL is addressed 10 all Euro
peans in these parts and exclusive honor is meant
Hereby Bishop Heber supposed when he wrote in his
Journal that the people, account OF Lis kindness to
them had bestowed upon him the title OF Protector OF
the Poor
While anxiously waiting FOR breakfast, amused my
self by reading list OF the books in the Library VI the
Gsnees Canal at Roerkhee, which hung nPon the wall.
no would have guessed that an humble author IN scran-
bling about the world should find Of his works in the
iarthet Of India a. the very foot OF the Huns
ls,asi Yet so il and the fact made the place less
inhospitable in spite Of my hunger Where my words
have already been | thought, shall not my body mi
poursLmeut and while ty ng to my self into the
feeling that there was a breakfast somewhere IA
Roo1khee which it was destined that l should eat, |
walled out upon the yerandah.
twas about eight in the morning: an atmosphere Of
crystal and not a cloud in the sky Yet sOmethn- white
and shining Gin mered through the loose foliage OF some
trees on ny right hand My heart came into my mouth
with the sudden bound gave, when. after plungng
through the trees Ike mad, tumbling into a
ditch On the other side. and scrambing up great
pile Of dit, saw the Himaa!as before me UnO0-
scured ty single cloud sPeck Of vaPor there stood
revealed a whole mountain region, from the low range
OF the Swaik Hills about twenty miles distant to the
Hottest puuacles Of eternal snow, which lOOA down On
China aud Tibet The highest range, though much
more than hundred miles distant the crow hles rose
As far into the sky as the Alps forty miles aud with
every glacier and cham and Pre Of untrodden sno" as
eIe.rlv defined Their true magnitude therefore, vas