The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-13
The Disease Must be Imbbed First from
the Soil.
INDIANS THEMSELVES AT FAULT,
Frightful Sanitary Conditions at Be
mares and Bombay-- --Aiieged Clcan-
lincss Breeds Discasc--Fatalism
That Awaits Death Gladly.
From the Times-tIerald.

the Red sea. cmbarlting, to Adeu
through the straits of Babel Mandeb
and across the Indian ocean to Bombay.
THAT is the overland Route"
IT is the usual thing for travellers to
compare the harbor of Bombay with
the Bay of Naples. Now. any harbor
with islands dotted about i'm it. and hills
behind il. is like the Bay of Naples,
more or less. Bar TIarbor. with IT'S
rugged. Maine air. is perpetually likened
to Nan1es because of it's islands and
mountains How much more. then,
mnv Rombay. veiIed in q flImv. tropical
haze. with IFS hills behind melting into
the farther. haze of heaven. and it's
islands I,,ing n,,nIa on tbe ,bnsou Of
its bav he comnared tn the italian
cit,9 And how much Of = more than
Jnon,1itor charm, may che he said
+, nossess at tin,esp "Ronbav tbe
no,ntiful,, cha ie called win her sea-
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adored of western natives of her land
lis ravaged by the foulest pestilence
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u"T,linS Pla'eS VI l''e l-ui ol'l',is Nv ms
t'' ,'o'i'p'S' anu are 'e'llpN e' l'o.' t,le
teS' SPot' uilue iHea'ii' as l"' az ~
lnS the 'hlecteu ar IS cohceri'eu' De-
SUES 'he usual NUMBER ol europeans
eh huraSlahs' tIere Is lie Ih'eftSl"lS
SfN T. Oh l'arSeeS' or IolloWef Oh cara
thastra' a cleanly' modest homogeneous
race, ShreWd in business, ana SAID to be
the only people in the world who do not
use tobacco in any form. They are rich
and socialistic, at least there is no such
thlng, ana never has been, as Parsee
pauper. The race would consider such
an individual lasting disgrace. The
Parsees, although subscribing largely
for the relief of their distressed Dreth-
rem, have nearly all fled from Bombay,
it is said. They are supposed to num-
be. about $4,000.
More than GO per cent of the whole
population is Hindu. and u per cent.
Mohammedan; the rest is made up of
the natives of the Buddhist and Jain
religions, Europeans, Eurasians, or
half-castes, and a few native Christians.
and a thousand or two beings indehn-
itely classed as Others" visitors i'm the
city, perhaps. for the census is a Slip
perry thing in India. and no caste people.
Bombay, like Calcutta, is subject to
extremes of heat at one time of wear
and floods of rain at another. together
with cold weather, in it's eason.which
resembles what we know of Paradise.
A sea breeze moditles the heat in
Bombay in March and April (Which il
does not do in CaIcutta). but NAV and
October heats override even the tenn
Derine of the sea breeze If is terrific
ally hot in those months.
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