Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . Chattfr XTTI. Imua— HREE days sail after leaving Ceylon brought us alongside Madras, where our shipdropped anchor, and remained eight hours. On ajjproaching the city we werealarmed at seeing our dear countrys flag at half mast over the office of the residentconsul there, and soon learned from the pajiers brought on board of the death \ice-President Henry Wilson. Hardly had our steamers engines ceased when swarms ofthe Tamil men came shouting over the high sur
Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . Chattfr XTTI. Imua— HREE days sail after leaving Ceylon brought us alongside Madras, where our shipdropped anchor, and remained eight hours. On ajjproaching the city we werealarmed at seeing our dear countrys flag at half mast over the office of the residentconsul there, and soon learned from the pajiers brought on board of the death \ice-President Henry Wilson. Hardly had our steamers engines ceased when swarms ofthe Tamil men came shouting over the high surfs, in their frail bark canoes, and clam-bered on board our vessel, eager and anxious to dispose of their wares, consisting of. ? ALHinsit C.\LCUTTA. embroideries, sandal-wood fans, carved images of animals, and various articles, for all of which\vc soon learned that the purchaser sets the correct price upon them, and not the number of native jugglers came on board, and |)erformed wonderful feats of jugglery, whichalmost led us to repudiate the laws of nature and those which govern the human body, andwhich would. I am sure, put to shame all the feeble attempts at the su|)ernatural practiced bythe .so-called spiritual mediums of my own country. Not only would they eat knives, takeout their eyes, grow plants, swallow snakes, but they would drink water mingled with threedifferent colors of paint, and spit the decoction from their mouths into three separate pilesol colored dry sand. Madras was a very cheerless looking city from the deck ol our steamer, and it seemsstrange that it should have been built down so closely to the shores of the sea without a harbor So —CALtLTTA. of any kind. Re
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