The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-03

so hard that he finally explained his
remark.
you have saved me from a great
disgrace" he said. 81, Rajah's son,
to be struck by Hindoo of low caste!'
Then the whole story, which the
Scotsman verified later on, came out.
/ The hero of it is still employed on an
interior plantation in Jamaica.
Ram SinEh's Worldwide Search
| for 1bOran.
, Another story of the love of a man
, for q woman is typical of the count
less romances that the coolies have
brought with them to their new world
homes.
Iboran was the daughter of Chun-
dar Lal, of plateau village of India.
In the same town Ram Singh lived,
| and Ram was engaged to marry Ibo-
ran when he could secure rupees
enough to make the wedding festivities.
To that end he went to work for an
Englishman in a distant town. Two
| years later he returned to his own VII
| lage with the money only to find that
Chundar Lal and his daughter had
followed coolie contractor across the
| black water"
Ram Singh was in despair. To his
| question as to where Iboran had gone
no one could definitely answer him,
not even the contractors, who had
sent the girl along with hundreds OF
others to the seacoast to be shipped
to any one of a half dozen places
Fiji, Natal, Trinidad, Jamaica, British
| Guiana, Montserrat
| Ram Singh vowed that great as was
the task before him he would find Ibo-
ran and marry her. There was but
one way to do that. She had become
a coolie; he must become a coolie also.
fDnvI1 ne oho hau hna 10
! the contractors told him. SO Ram
/ Singh indentured himself for a term of
| six years as coolie on a Fiji planta-
| ton.
Arrived there he set about hunting
| for Iboran when he was not required
to be in the fields. But his search was
in vain--she was not in Fiji.
For six years Ram Singh worked
and waited. Then maybe she is in
Natal" the plantation owner. who
| knew his story, told him. And straight
\ way Ram Singh bound himself for a
term of six years to a Natal planter.
The End of the Lovers Travels.
| Again it was six years wasted, six
years of working and waiting. But on
the day that his contract was ended,
Ram Singh signed away his liberty for
a third team of six years and was taken
in a coolie ship to Trinidad.
mere ne BOL his HFSL ray OF nope.
| One day as he was about his search, he
ran across a man who had been a
neighbor of Chundar Lal, Iboran's ia
'ther and he told~Ram Singh that Ibor-
an, mourning for her lover whom she
never expected to see again, had gone
with her father from India to Jamaica.
That was enough to cause the years
necessary to his release to pass swiftly
| for Ram Singh, and then. with the
money that he had saved, he took pas
| sage to Jamaica and began his search
with renewed heart.
1t was in an interior village that
Iboran was found, still unmarried, still
| true to the memory of her lover. At
| first she would not believe that Ram
! Singh was other than a ghost, but
when he had convinced her and told
of his worldwide search for her, the
wedding festivities were straightway
planned.
To-day Ram Singh and his wife,
Iboran, the daughter of Chundar Lal,
are living back of their little silver
smith shop in the town where five
years ago Ram Singh found his sweet
| heart.