The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-05-02
A Hindoo's Experience OF Winter.

Mr. J.C. Gangooly, the converted Brahmin
now studying theology in Massachuse it's
gives, in the Transcript, the interesting &C
count of his experience Of snow and cold
weather
Wherever go the first thing l am asked
is my impressions of the winter. "How do you
bear our New England winter, sir - "Does
not the weather affect your health - &c, are
the inquiries Of my friends. In answer,
would say, bear the cold AS well as any body,
and like the American winter, it is SO full OF
new and amusing scenes TO me. Before COM
ing 70 the western country l had read about
the western winter-of water frozen SO
hard that heavy teams easily pass over lt-Of
the ground covered with snow several feet
deep.
ine accounts believed in part and the rest
sounded TO me like a grandmother's story. OF
course saw ice in Calcutta imported from
Boston, hut was puzzled 10 know how water
could be SO hard by freezing. This was very
natural perplexity, because had no idea of
the thing at all. When l told the ladies here
that the hindoos boil simple milk SO hard that
they make dolls, lowers, &C, out OF it 10 adorn
their tables, they hardly believed it until did
the experiment before their eyes. They by
their own hands made flowers of different
shape and size, which by half an hour became
as'hard As rock.
AS it was a year before last May that came
to This country, inquired of my friends how
soon the snow would fall and water freeze. l
used to look through the windows early in
mornings TO see If there was any snow on the
ground. In September l noticed something
white spreading over the ground. l rushed
out in ecstacy, and told my friends about it.
Can you imagine my disappointment when
they said il was mere frost! In Boston l saw
the first snow. Astonished, stood to watch
the fiecks falling from the sky. Father said
l, thus Thy blessings fall upon us, q bundant-
~ and impartially upon the good and the evil
alike"
wished very much thai my Bengalee friends
could ste such sight and finding IL was i'm
Ikpl.a Nk.AvvN
little relic of the white mud. made solid,
heavy SNOWFALL, which seemed so durable in
the open air tina, hoped to send it to India
by the first opportunity; took 1T to Mr.. MS
aud carefully put it on the man tel -piece. Need
l tell you the result it is we'll known to You
all. In my letter to Bengal l described the
leading feature of the American winters, but
could not write any thing about freezing hop
ing 10 do IL by ana by, after had some ex-
perience Of it.
My health is. on the whole, better in this
country. My friends tell me to eat meat, evt n
II IL was Il very little, and drink some warm
drink; but l cannot do SO. l never ate any
meat. or used any drink but that W ich comes
and taen wish 10 be In India to see the land
smile, the flowers bloom, and the birds sing in
these months.
On the late Christmas your churches were
decorated with leaves only-there were hardly
any flowers there. In Calcutta you could
cover the churchy ard with a few dollars worth
of flowers, you could entertain party of
with fourteen kinds of fruit, at the expense
OF two dollars. Contrasts like these create
a bit of home-sick i'll me, but COVERT up with
the garments OF duty, and go on my way re-
joicing, singing and giving the glory to the
Most High.