The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-03
HINDOO SAILORS HABITS.
THE WAY MOHAMMED'S DUSKY
DISCIPLES LIVE ON BOARD SHIP.

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Sixteen ofThem at Work on the British
Steamship Chollerton-Their Dress
Manners, Religious Rites and Cook
ery-The Queer Dishes that They
Eat = Passing the Hubble-Bubble-
The Bendadi and His Wives.
The British steamship Chollerton, Capt
Thomas Free, master, which is dischargiug
her cargo of KANT at the Central cotton
press wharf, has gang of sixteen Hindoos
as portion of her crew, and to an Ameri-
can they are curiosity. They are COM
manded by a saranee or chief, whose name
Is Abdul Roman. Then there are two tin
| dals, or heads of each working squad, six of
whom are firemen and six of whom are
| trimmers or coal passers. The sixteenth
man, mangroo, and savant, is known as
| the bendadi or cook. They work four hours
on and are eight hours off. The saranee
| comes on with two fremen and two
trlmmers and is relieved in turn
| by tindal No. l with four men, and
tindal No. 2 relieves tindal No. and his
| gang. The bendadi is more of a privileged
| character, and does the cooking for his
| fellow Hindoos The Hindoos were shipped
at Calcutta from which place the vessel
| went to Antwerp, thence to Hamburg aud
| via Shields to Savannah, arriving here Sun
day.
A VISIT TO THE CHoLLERToN.
When MORNING News reporter boarded
the vessel yesterday, during the absence of
the master, courtesies were extended the
press representative by Chief Engineer H.
l.. Whitburn, under whose direct charge
the Hindoos work, and he acted as inter-
prefer. He says the Hindoos are most in
dustrious, give no trouble, and are very
faithful in the discharge of their duty.
Though dark, like the African, they have
much finer features, and an intelligent and
| kindly countenance They have very black
but straight hair, and fine boards and mus
taches. In physical development they are
equal to the Anglo Saxon, and while the
| most of them wear no garment except
breech clout their modesty is something
remarkable. Some of them were seen at
their evening ablutions, and being a clearly
people, they wash themselves all over.
They are of the Mohammedan faith and
very devout, praying five times daily.
IN THE COOKS GALLEY.
A visit was paid to the galley, where the
bendadi was preparing the evening meal
| He was shaping the rootee, or bread, in thin
| fiat cakes, baked by quick heat on top of
the range, and the bendadi handled the
dough and cakes with dexterity that few
cooks in this country can hope TO attain.
| Two pans of currie were being kept warm
on top of the range. One pan of the food
was made by the saranee, and differed from
| that made by the bendadi only in having
bits of mutton in it. The currie is made of
rice, tamarae, tamarind, onions, black and
red pepper, caraway, garlic, bay
| leaves and other ingredients, SO
unpronounceable in the English tongue,
hat ka to 81,
pronounce them in the vernacular. The
| dishes were partaken of and were found to
be a most appetzing and delicious dish.
| In fact, the bendadi was so well pleased
| with the complement to his cooking, that
he volunteered to come to the visitors
house and make dish. The mutton used
was killed by the bendadi, and under the
| rules of their religion no one else could have
| prepared it.
RITES AT THE SLAUGHTER.
| Going ashore Monday he took the sacrif-
| cial knife, and after prayer to Allah over
the extended blade, he half severed the head
from the body of the animal Other rites
| and prayers were offered over the sheep,
after which it was ready to be dressed. The
bendadi is high priest, and has been pill
grim to Mecca. He is a man of so years
| or more, with most kindly countenance.
| Two or three hubble bubbles, or Hindoo
| p
coo, or tobacco, mixed with a saccharine
into paste, was laid in the bowl of each pipe,
and a circular piece of charcoal prepared
| for the purpose was heated to white heat
and laid on the PASTE Long stems connect
ing with the stem, or stand, of the pipe,
made something like small section of hose.
were used on two OF the pipes, the smoke
passing through water in globe at the foot
of the pipe. One was even a greater culi-
osity, being small globe made from a Wy
small cocoanut, with small suck hole, at
which the smoker applies his lips and sucks
the smoke down through the tube and water
into his mouth. The pipes were passed. and
the Hindoos seemed to be very highly pleased
that their Inequalities had not been de-
clined.
| WELL FIXED FOR WIVES.
The Hindoos believe in early marriages,
and Abdul Roman, the Saranee, admitted
that he catch wife when | one year old. "
They also believe in polygamy, but the
saranee has but one wife. The bendadi,
however, when asked how many wives he
had, admitted that he is the happy husband
| of two or the fairest of Hindostan's famed
beauties.
The Hindoos buy all of their provisions
from the master of the vessel, and scrupu-
lousy prepare their own food. 1.-THE Hin
| docs excel the Chinese as cooks, " said Chief
Engineer Whitburn, land often some of
their delicacies find their way to the officers
table," When the Hindoos are not at work,
at their prayers or asleep, they pass the
time in games of cards, and when they
smoke the pipe is passed from one to another.
| They are industrious at their work and
luxurious in their ease, and manifest their
| pleasure by an intelligent kindling of
quickly responding features, and when they
SMILE their thin lips, though dark as those
of the African, disclose small, ivory white
teeth that would make the proudest Amer
| lean belle envy them