Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1884-04-23
AROUND THE WORLD.
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reached the depot Darieeling was in full view.
It was Roodly sight indeed, the pure white
walls of its many cottages and hotels stand
ing out in refreshing contrast to the dark
hill. Darjeeling ia built on a mountain-side
and covers a large area of ground. As the
houses are every one visible Gas in Hong
Kong) the town consisting of tiers circling
one above another around q great natural
amphitheatre, the effect is decidedly pleas
ing one. When our train pulled in at the
depot We we're pounced upon by scores of
coolies, whom the native police strove feebly
to restrain. There were few 'rickishas in
waiting-yes the 'rickishs has reached even
Darieeling They were built, however, with
reference to climbing these mountains, being
manned by two pulling coolies and one push
ing coolie Then there were dandies-moun-
tain vehicles which I can only describe by
saying they were open sedan chairs, arranged
Old the principle of the inclined plane. The
coolies in charge of them were called dam
dy-wallahs ," But by far the greater number
of coolies were chill people," native men
and women who carry burdens by means OF
a cane or leather strap which passes around
the forehead and is arranged to sustain
load, embracing anything from toothbrush
to a piano upon the back had already
fallen in with an enterprising hotel propr1-
etor who had come down to the hotel at
Kfersiong-another mountain resort-to
head us Off Accompanying him, / soon
fOuuQ mySeI bn6 Solo Su6Sb al LAo JoOAn8
and Himafayan hotel, where I am now l1v-
ing like prince (six rupees day.. Expen-
SEES are high in Darjeeling, but you get the
very best of everything for your money.
We have five meals a day; chotle
hadjerie, hadjerie or breakfast, t1ffin,
lunch and dinner. 1 have scheme
which 1 intend to lay before the hotel pro-
prietors for adding one more meal to this
list, AN American supper. Guests can get
up at midnight to eat it. Seriously, the air
NAV be stimulating to tho functions of the
I stomach, but fear dyspepsia will claim me
1 for her own il I stay here much longer. 1t is
still very early in the season and half
| the hotels are yet still vacant In week or
two the Lieutenant Governor of the Bengal
| presidency will leave Calcutta and como up
| here with his suite to occupy his palace and
1 the government buildings here which
have been vacant all the winter. Some troops
! have already arrived here. For the delicate
/ soldiers to summer at Calcutta would be most
I deleterious in its effects upon their frail
| health.
A walk, or rather climb about Darjseling
| reveals much of interest.
There are public botanical gardens, small
but select, fine Church of England build
! ing Catholic church, a union chapel, a jail,
| a sanitarium, q weekly newspaper office, Birch
| Hill park and the palaces of at least two
l rajahs who live in European style. In the
I distance more or less of the snowy range can
almost always be seen. A walk of five miles
to the summit of Senechal affords q
| fine glimpse of Everest, the highest
| nountain in the world-wben you can see
| it. took the walk yesterday, but old Ev-
| crest didn't happen to be in. Wonder if
| there's any such mountain there at all!
| Anyway there are enough without it.
This is one of the finest reproducing Sec
| tons in India It is found that tea grows
best about this climate and on the hill side.
| So there are hundreds of great tea planta-
tons all around. Each plantation works
l several hundreds orathousands of hands
The bushes are about foot
| high and paths for the use
| of the laborers zigzag down the terraces,
looking for all the world like streaks of
''chain lightning caught and pinionsd there.
where the European proprietor lives. aud a
| large, long, barn-like establishment wherein
the tea is cured
| Don't tell me that travelling isn't healthy"
| Considering this . suitable halfway point in
| the Round the World journey for weigh
| ing myself, 1 stepped into shop
| to-day and discovered that 1
| weigh just on. maund and
| thirty-three and three-quarters seers in the
| system of Indian measures, which is a gain
| of seventeen pounds since left America six
months ago. Quod est demonstrandum.
There are plenty of places of intsres! in
! the neighborhood. One is a native swinging
| bridge of cane over a stream one mile wide
made before Europeans came here. My only
| fear is that shall become Lotus eater and
want to stay here always. EMILE.