Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-06-14
He who win not when he may,
Wren he will he snail have nav.
Grant i'm SingaPOre-TakingL Leave
Of India,


SINGAPORE. April Sit was pleasant to sail
down the straits Of Malacca and along the
coast OF Burmah In comfortable and swift
Franks. After leaving RangOOn We ran across
to the little town Of Maulmain. Here General
Grant and party were received by Col. Dun. the
honor at the wharf, and gathering OF what
appeared to be the whole town. The evening
after we arrived there was dinner given by
the Maulma1n Volunteer Rif1eS-a militia organ
ization composed of the merchants OF Maulmain
and young men In the service OF the govern
ment. The dinner was given In the messroom
skirts OF the town. The next morning there
was visit to the wood yards, where teak wood
Is sawed and sent as an article OF commerce
fqe t =, 1S n the teak tree Is fsa
peninsula, and Is said to be the most durable
timber In Asia. The JavaneSe name for teak
illustrates its character, meaning true, real,
quite unknown In parts OF India and the adj
joining Islands. Most Of the wood comes, was
told, from Java, and We found In Maulmain and
Rangoon large and fioWfshtng industries de-
voted TO teak What most interested JUS In our
visit to the yards was the manner In which the
elephant Is used as an animal Of burden.
We have seen more or less of the elephant In
our Indian travels, but always under circum-
stances to inspire respect-petted decorated
with joyous trapptngs In the suite OF a rajah, or
war animal In the British army. In Slam he
is sacred. 1t seemed like degradation to see
an animal holding so high place In our imagi-
nation hauling logs around lumber yard. The
elephant On the peninsula Is a more amable
creature than his brother In Africa, and ali
through the Malay peninsula he serves as
beast OF burden. In CeylOn and some parts of
India ne has done duty as game, but the Indian
government has tnterfered and prevented the
killing OF the elephant, or even capturing him
In his Wild state except by permission OF the
authorities and for specified useful purposes
Is remarkable. His power Is enormous, and to
this power he adds Intelligence. He Will lift the
largest teak logs, and teak Is among the heavt-
Will push log with his foot against the saw
and carry the sawed wood In hts tusks or his
trunk In all these manGuvres he Is directed
by the mahOut, who sits on his neck and man
ages him with gOad, or more generally Oy the
word OF mouth. Sometimes an elephant Ia so
wild and untanable as TO be dangerous, and yet
he viii serve his masters. We saw one animal,
who was pushing logs about, who had killed
four Or five OF the wOrkmen. He was kept In
order by Lad who carried sharp spear, keep
ing the spear always near the elephants eye.
In taking our leave OF our kind friends
In Burmah were taking leave OF India. Burmah
Is under the Calcutta government, and the
Straits OF Malacca are under the Home Colonial
government, with governor at Singapore,
The settlements are known as 1.-The Straits Col
ony." They were acquired under the East India
Company, the acquisition or Penang, to which
we sailed on leaving Maulnain, being the work
OF the celebrated Warren Hastings. On leaving
India, the first thing that occurs to all OF our
party-to no one more than to General Grant
From the time OF our arrival In Bombay, as the
guest or Sir Richard Temple, at Malabar Point,
until we departed from Belvedere the stately
home OF Sir Ashley Eden In Calcutta, we have
received nothing but kindness, unyarying and
considerable. We have made rapid tOur-too
rapid, indeed, TO see the country as fully as we
could wish. We are compelled to leave Madras
and Ceylon unvisited, although we have had
the most urgent invitations from the Duke of
Buckingham. who governs Madras, and the
Governor Of Ceylon. But we Came to India late
through waiting for the Richmond, and even
now the Europeans In India who can 90 are
flying TO the hills TO escape the sun. The Vice.
roy only remained long enough to see General
Grant, and we all feel the heat 50 severely that
even the General himSelf-a severe and merci-
less traveller, who cares little for the fatigue OF
JOurneying or the eXactions OF the clmate-iS
counting the days until we pass the Straits and
steer toward the more temperate zones Of China
and Japan.