. India, past and present / C. H. Forbes-Lindsay. t with haughty Oriental race and well nigh every Westernnation is represented in the throng: Afghan, Persian,Baluchi, Jew, Maratha, Bengali, Rajput, Sikh, eachdistinguishable by peculiarities of physique, speechand garb. The picture is not without its complement of gaily-clad women, graceful alike in form and feature;straight as the sapling, with sinuous motion, theythread their way through the concourse of men andvehicles, to the clanking accompaniment of banglesand anklets. Some carry, poised upon their hips,naked little brown babi
. India, past and present / C. H. Forbes-Lindsay. t with haughty Oriental race and well nigh every Westernnation is represented in the throng: Afghan, Persian,Baluchi, Jew, Maratha, Bengali, Rajput, Sikh, eachdistinguishable by peculiarities of physique, speechand garb. The picture is not without its complement of gaily-clad women, graceful alike in form and feature;straight as the sapling, with sinuous motion, theythread their way through the concourse of men andvehicles, to the clanking accompaniment of banglesand anklets. Some carry, poised upon their hips,naked little brown babies, fat and happy; othersbear baskets or earthenware vessels upon their heads. There the smart brougham or victoria of theEuropean tries to extricate itself from the ruck ofbox-like shigrams and creaking bullock carts ofhumbler folks; here a corpulent babu in a buggycontests the way Avith a sailor or Eurasian in a palki,the bearers trotting along to a monotonous picture is rich in minor details: the stalls of the Hindu Mother and Child. BOMBAY. 129 merchants with their multiplicity of goods; the fan-tastic fakir and the loathsome mendicant; the barbershaving the head of a patron upon the footpath,while both squat upon their haunches to facilitate tlieoperation ; chupprassies in neat uniform and sepoysin regimentals; bheesties with water-skins slung fromthe shoulder; bhanghy wallahs balancing bambooswith large pots suspended from each end; these arebut some of the interesting features of a scene whichis enlivened by the audacious coloring of the houses,the brilliant tints of chadahs, the sonorous sound ofthe ox bell, the monotone of the itinerant preacher,the shrill cry of tlie street vendor, or the twang of asitar from a neio-hborino;: veranda. The European quarter is at the southern end of theisland. Just north of the promontory of Colaba,upon which is situated the barracks of tlie Englishtroops, is the Apollo Bunder, where rank and fashiongather in the cool of the e
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