The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-05-27
A TAR HEELS IMPRESSION
OF A BRITISH GARRISON
TOWN IN CENTRAL INDIA
tBY MADEION BATTLE HANCoCK.)

looking over the new papers from
home, and general companionship.
The club here is a big low building,
set in lovely gardens with its own
tennis and badminton courts and its
wide verandas, which every evening
are full of laughing groups. The pub
lie gardens are just across the road
from the club, in which a band plays
every evening Besides the officers of
the garrison and their wonenfolk, the
Eurasian population turn out in all
their snuff and butter glory to en-
Joy the music, Nurses and Ayahs form
noisy happy groups with their rosy
charges, and tommy atkins wande
about, spiCk and spar and very much
in demand.
The Central province is cetain1y the
happy hunting ground of the sports
man. Big game is plentiful, tiger.
panther and various antelope, not
forgetting nil gal, sambhur, black
buck, c~hinhara, etc. Rear and bison
are to be got, also pig, red dog, hyena
and jackal. The latter stream through
the compounds in cantonments filing
the night with thei urearthy cries.
Ones friends keep II supplied with
I'D duel, snipe, partridge and quail
| ali tee Winter. Duck and whistling
tea ae 10 be found in mist Of the
:araJ rr aaes, that are numerous in
lie Jnpss1ipore district, and crocodile
a1e often ssen poking their noses out
between the floating lotus pads.
Mnj.g Of the birds are beautiful. the
E3iGen or:cte and purple sun bird,
thar remind one of our humn,ing-
t?rt iii North Carolina, fash from
fl.,~er to flower. and Groves Of green
and yari-cc}r:.s4 parrots fill the air
with color and dis,crdant sounds.
The tanks and rivers are full Of
fish. the maseer being the best eat
ing fish in this country.
CAntOnmen1s.
Centonments, the British residen-
tia part OF Jubbulpore. is a picture of
vide, we'll kept roads and shady COM
pounds shut Of by neatly dipped
hedges
The roads are lined on Zach side
with huge minaosa and mango trees,
and for miles one cal motor or drive
along these lovely avenues while
troops Of gray-faced monkeys swing
overhead from tree to tree or run
~ or thirty. headed by a big male
along the road side in strings Of TWEEN
who ha won his position by his
proves in battle.
The officers bungalows are low and
white with wide ~verandahs, for the
most part straw matched. and set in
compounds brilliant with flowers,
roses. poincetfias, sweet peas and
great bushes Of gardeniaS joint with
The acacia and mimosa trees il the
medley Of scent and color.
Il garrison consists Of two bat
talions Of British infantry, two BAT
taliOns Of native infantry and one
brigade Of artillery, 5000 troops in
all Two infantry regiments are al
ways kept modified ready to move
east or west il needed. at twenty-fou
!, kours' notice.
| A morning ride through canton
!, mentS LIS always full Of interest. A
, , troop Of native cavalry trot past witt
jingli0g chains and pennants flying
at the end Of their 1ances. Fint
= clean cut men they look, Rajuts
= Sikhs and Punjabi Musalmans. theil
: boards parted in the middle an(
! twisted away from the center ant
); tucked under their tightly foldet
- turbans.
A string Of pack camels wande
. along on the opposite side Of the road
y contempt for the world in thei
4 prominent eyes Native women il
= colored saris OF in phodpore breeche
- and head covering Of brilliant cottor
carrying Dads Of stone or other art!
- cleS on their heads. soIne of Their
wearing massive silver bangles an
"a other on their slen6e
waists n ankles. Across the Made
or plain, a squad OF British infantr
are drilling. looking from the dis
lance like a mechanical toy so jerk
IL and precise are their movements.
Sc Real Glimpse of the East.
- II we continue our ride into Jul
~ bulpore city or the native quarter, n
get a q glimpse of the East.
has the eromo population OF abo,
so, 200 who live here in picturesQl
~ tut ~unsanitary state. 1t is here II
plague starts.
The bazar is a riot of smell ar
er color, the shops merely booths, II
wares laid out in neat squares, sticl
e sWe ets, black with flies, in one cor
Ga rArtment-betel-rut sprinkled with
90 dash OF lime. ordinary white-wa.
ca rolled up in leaf rea ~ to h
ae, Next to the sweet stall is a bra
en- merchant. the sun almost blindil
we enc "a it strikes the we'll polish
om metal; gay cclored silks and cotto
hang up along the front OF one sh'
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