Bombay and western India, a series of stray papers; . white where it touched the beach,—akind of map spread out before our eyes to look at, or rather abright and golden vision to live in the memory afterwards. Icould see the island fort of Kulaba, and further to the south,standing out of the sea, the old forts of Korli and Chaul, notmuch shorn of tlieir ancient grandeur. Sagargadh is a wild andweird place, awfully lonely, higli up among the rocks, built ofgieat unhewn boulders whicli the Angrias had dragged from thesea-shore, and heaped one on the top of the other, until theymade of it such a
Bombay and western India, a series of stray papers; . white where it touched the beach,—akind of map spread out before our eyes to look at, or rather abright and golden vision to live in the memory afterwards. Icould see the island fort of Kulaba, and further to the south,standing out of the sea, the old forts of Korli and Chaul, notmuch shorn of tlieir ancient grandeur. Sagargadh is a wild andweird place, awfully lonely, higli up among the rocks, built ofgieat unhewn boulders whicli the Angrias had dragged from thesea-shore, and heaped one on the top of the other, until theymade of it such a den as wild animals might rear to protectthemselves and their quarry from invasion. There was an em-1)rasure or look-out, into which I crept, and lying down uponmy breast, I peered over the battlements which are here perchedon a mighty wall of rock, down whicli a stone let loose tliunderedaway to tlie jungle. The men who once lived here luul all come up the way thatI came, and up the stony track which I had traversed for niilea 256 BOMBAY angrias kulaha. 257 had come in former days much si)oil and plunder, taken out ofships, and some sailors also, wearing their last pair of of Venetian se(|iuns, English gniueas, Arab taffetas, andDacca muslins, all were fish in their net. They wrecked first,and sung afterwards, sung until their meat and drink were done,with an occasional nudge of a iirisoner over the precipice byway of variety; and then went for more. Tiiese lubber fiends,the Angrias, were made to destroy, not to create; and whennecessity compelled tluau to make anytliing it was of the rudestfashion, an exhibition of mere strength. If you wish to seewhat uncxiltivated men with brute force at their command cando, you will come here; and if you wish to see what science inarcliitecture and a settled Government can do where men havea thought aliove themselves, however bad they may otherwisebe, you will go to Ahmadabad. Kulaba is an island, about half a mile l
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