Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-15

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sweeping and arranging hotel apart
ments; he is of higher caste and only
blacks your boots and such.
The coolies that row you and your lug
gage ashore would never carry your lug
age lower-caste coolies must 10 that.
The dirty driver Of a b~ullockacart VIII
take your luggage to the hotels, but ii
must be loaded and unloaded for him by
separate sets Of coolies. ="
Each native who sees you arriving or
departing will crowd around you and 'eX-
tend his hand. expecting a fee. In'the
streets the young and old greet you with
their salaam (salutation) and ask for
aims. VI
The people are nietfer energetic nor
ambitious II prefer to lounge around
rather than to work. They stroll around
Or work in the broiling sun bareheaded,
apparently unnlindful of the fierce sun,
which is very powerful and dangerous to
Europeans il exposed to it's direct rays.
FOREIGN NATIONAL1TIEs.
All n]ational;ties of Egypt and India are
in Colombo. but there are absolutely no
Cinnamon Whatsoever, the Chinese not
being able to compete with native labor
and grow rich. The jinrikshamen are
natives. The nationalities from Egypt
and India swarm the chief streets, on
which are located their small shops.
Their incessant wall and salutation is
Il am waiting for thee" You promised
me-" "Corne inside, just to look, not to
buy" and so on. \ dozen, all at once,
persist in calling every European passer-
by.
They are very amusing, at times annoy
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taking ~offense. Precious stones and jew
elry are their chief articles of trade.
They are great prev%aricators, very willy
and exceedingly shrewd in palnring off
almost worthless stones in cheap alloy
settings upo passengers from the vali-
Gus steamships.
All the Cingalese, with few exceptions,
chew the betel leaf and arrac nut COM
bination. White lime, obtained from the
burnt shells, is spread upon the betel leaf,
and chips of dried arrac nut (grown on
the arrac palm) are put with the leaf and
chey,ed. The combination results in a
deep red juice, which colors the lips, the
saliva, the gums, etc, a bright red. The
cheWefS appear to have a mouthful Of
blood. 1t is very hideous at first, but one
soon fails to be impressed with the sight.
The betel leaf (there is no betel nut) is
the leaf of q tropical vine (creeper.) Light
pink-tinted lime is a fad INDUCED in by
a few. Some add several cloves, carda-
mon and a pinch Of leaf tobacco as a 1spe-
cial ~fiavoring. T etc
AN ELEPHANT HUNT. -
Ceylon has no tigers, but it has large
tiger cats, elephants and snakes galore.
The deadly cobra, adder and python are
the most dreaded of the reptiles.
In The interior of Ceylon / had rather a
novel experience, that OF witnessing an
elephant kraal.
Several weeks previously two herds of
elephants had been surrounded by some
$500 native coolies under the lorders of
their Observation-Disclosures, preparatory to
the kraaling. The plot Of wilderness and
jungle surrounded by the circle of coolies
extended over an area of about 5000
acres.
Every night, by firing blank ammuni-
ton, kindling fires, beating tointon1s and
loud shouting, the elephants We're driven
several hundred yards nearer to an inn
provised stockade. This was repeated
nightly until the elephants were half a
mile or less from the mouth of the stock
AIDE. This chase sometimes requires more
than two months.
The circle of coolies then opens and
incloses within it's ranks the entire stock
| AIDE. This stockade was built of stout
tree trunks deeply and firmly imbedded
in the ground at a distance of two feet
| apart. These tree posts projected some
IA feet above the earth and were fe-en-
forced by three parallel lines of horizontal
cross-pieees, securely tied to the posts
with wild vines and creepers. The whole
was further strengthened by a series OF
! sla braces firmly fixed in the ground
and having horizontal cross-pieces also
| bound to them. The stockade or "kraal'
| was about 500 feet square and built in the
| Jungle, with it's entrance disguised to
appear as the thickest part of the jungle.
The entrance for the game was from so
to rs feet wide and at the north side of
| the stockade.
Beyond the stoekade, OF the south, OPP
posite its entrance. was "kraal Iown,
| which consisted of several dozens OF
! native shops and a number of bunga-
lows, built of palm leaves and lined inside
with white cloth, all temporary for the
occasion. The bungalows were gayly
decorated with bunting and flags. A kin
of grand stand had been erected just out
side the stockade, OF the south side, next
to "Kraal Town
AN EXCITING SPECTACLE.
About 7 a. m. we FASTENED to the grand
stand. The drive-in had already COM
| menced. the shouts of the beaters and the
firing of their guns re~sounding on all
| sides. The heaters came pearer and
nearer, the cracking trees, vines and jun
| gle growth became terrific as the rushine
elephants approached nearer to the
| stockade.
The excitement and interest were in
tense. Repeatedly some of the elephants
made determined attempts to break
| through the lines of the coolies, but We're
met with volleys from the guns and loud
cheers from the heaters, who rushed
| toward the huge beasts and, by their
courage and bold front awe and turned
them one more toward the ockad
Finally the largest and most ferocious
! elephant, which had been leading the
herd, made a mad rush for the patch OF
| dense green Jungle ahead, which dis