Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-10-10
Romantic scenes Near Hydcrabad.

!
We were at Hyderabad. Ii was the
night of January q, 1888; the most
remarkable day Of my journey in India
was approaching, but my sleep was DIS
turbed by dissgreeable dreams and
nasty mosquitoes, the latter pene-
trating the dslusiye net.
As early as 4:30 o'clock in the morn
ing, however, we are seated in our car
riages on the road to the residence OF
Salar Yung, the Premier, who had PIE.
coded US, evidently to perform the ride
more at case than 1t would have been
possible in our company, he being far
from " light weight" 1t is still night,
but bright, cheerful moon is lighting
our way to the rendezvous Of the
sportsmen. As soon as we are di'
yided into the light carriages in
waiting the start is made. The
streets are silent and deserted, only
through some half-opened balcony door
a faint fickering light struggles into
the street, the reelection OF some noe
turnal orgie within, whence the notes
OF guitar or banjo, accompanied by
the light tread Of the Nautch girl, issue
/ in the dead silence Of the night. Short
~ the violent humping Of the carriages
indicate that we have quilted the pre-
( cincts Of the town, and as we proceed
/ the road become worse and worse, great
boulders and deep holes threatening
every moment TO upset the vehicles or
cause the slender springs to snap.
The scenery, however, is here, as
everywhere around the city, very
striking, the uudnlating ground being
strewn With huge blocks Of stone. as If
thew had been tossed hitheT and .hither
by nature in some capricious mood.
Some Of the blocks ale piled upon each
other in such u manner as to cause a
! lively imagination to fancy them giants
and trolls barring the way. According
to Indian folk. lore these blocks were
brough. hither some 1000 years ago
in this manner. The monkeys, which
in the earlier times in great numbers
Inhabited the lands beyond the lima
layas, seized OF the remarkable idea OF
building a bridge between The mainland
and Ceylon, and, headed by their lead
crs. they left their settlements in great
numbers for the south, carrying With
them ffom their mountains materials
fox their gigantic bridge. But the road
became too long for them, and they
were obliged, OF reaching the spo.
where Hy3erabad now stands to throw
their loads away, and here they lie to-
day. Such is the uindoo tradition.
However that may be these gigantic
blocks, illuminated by the pale moon,
were Weirdly effective, and impaired to
the Landscape a grand and striking ap-
pcaraHce.
As the moon becomes pller and paler
the scenery around becomes more and
more awe-inspiTing. But in fe1 mo-
ments its light dies away as a gorgeous
purple in the eastern sky heralds the
coming Of another morn. Suddenly
crimson tint spreads over the land--a
light which involuntarily recalls to 10y
mind the Walpurgis night in Faust. 1t
is q rapid transformation scene | Wit
ness. A little lake on my left looks as
If on fire, and every ono expects to see
Mebhistopheles' spirits Of the deep as
cend to tread their weird whirl-dance
on The rocky shore.
This nocturnal scene was grand in
the extreme, and in harmonious accord
with The opening Of tiger-hunt in an
Indian Jungle,