Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-19

i It was that enabled one OF party OF saii
ors to raise I'D barrel of beef when i
would take five natives to do the SAM
thing. .,...
The climate also differs from ours
When the earth with US is locked fas
in frozen embrace" and our woods anc
fields are covered with snow, in India thu
fields are green, and the gardens and or
chards are rich with flowers and fruits
rendering the days pleasant and beautiful
while the mosquitoes make the nigh
miserable.
There are two routes to Calcutta. One
the most modern and yet the most an
cient, by the way OF Egypt and the Rec
Sea, and which occupied 80 days in th'
passage {but which, within short time
has been shortened twelve days.; and thu
other around Cape Good Hope. There il
now third route,-that by our Pacific
railroad to California and from thence tt
i China. q. r.-. gm -.~ e-
1 The lecturer then described sea voy
age, with the accompanying pleasures
and annoyances, including sea sickness
etc.
From America very little is exported tx
India in comparison to the enormous car
goes brought thence, yet almost every
thing of our manufacture is found there
as well as the productions of other coun
tries; and they can be purchased cheaper
than in Europe. The land is full of oul
clocks. He knew one rich native who ha6
fifty of them and had them all running 81
as to hear them strike. Their stores are
filled with greater varieties and larger
stocks than our stores, they being pur
chased to supply the varied wants of the
different nationalities of the buyers, anG
these goods they will bring to your house
for you to select from.
Ice is one of the principal exports from
America, and the ice ships are also the ia
vorite ships for the transportation o.
fruits, etc. The natives cannot under
stand how these ships are navigated, theil
ideas being confined to the navigation o.
rivers; and they always ask where and
how they anchor at night.
The port of Calcutta is reached from
the ocean by river which sailors feal
more than they do the perils of the ocean
but they feel relieved when the pilot
reaches them, the pilot laws being among
the best in the world and the pilots, hay
ing served long apprenticeship, are thor
oughly familiar with their duties.
The people on the bank of the river are
generally brick makers, and their houses
are the same there as throughout the
country except in cities, being low
thatched, plastered with mud, and with
out windows, and costing to build about
fifty dollars. Calcutta is Europeanized
but outside it is like Asia. Calcutta il
its best attire is seen as you go up the
river. For miles up the banks are beau
tiful palaces with gardens attached, and
in the city are also palaces among which
are the residence of the Governor, G enera
and other officers of state
About mile below is Fort William
well armed and garrisoned. 1t is sale
that this fort saved India in 1857.
The river is lined with stairways bull
both by government and private individ
uals to facilitate bathing and drawing
water. At certain hours the river is full
of bathers- They usually plunge in three
times, repeating couplets of their sacred
songs. Their sacred temples are also OF
the banks of the river, it being a branch
of the Ganges.
At almost every hour funeral pyres may
be seen blazing Un ~:.L~- L~-1-. .ha hndie
of the rich being burned, and the ashe
thrown into the river. The poor, not be
ing able to buy wood, simply sooroh tn,
body and then throw it into the river, ant
the government hire men whose sole bust
ness is to bury these bodies. In othe,
places, some of which are one Thousand
miles distant, the bodies are burned, and
a Joint or finger is preserved; and wheI
sufficient are accumulated they ar
brought and thrown in the river.
The burning of widows and drowning
of babes is not now practiced. People ar,
not allowed to die in the house, they
when about to die, are taken out, and /
they recover, they inhabit place BY
themselves.
The customs of the people do no
change-when building a road, the con
structor, an Englishman, noticed tina
they carried the dirt in baskets, he there
fore furnished them with wheelbarrows
but these they carried on their heads tn
same as they did the baskets.
The lecturer spoke at length in refer
ence to the servants, houses and other pc
culia-ities of the country, of which w
have not now the time or space to speak
The whole subject was treated in al
entertaining, amusing and instructiv
manner, and we sthink that those of on
citizens who did not hear him last eveuin,
have lost an opportunity which rarely