India impressions, with some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7 [microform] . ossessions as todress distinctions between the sexes, might havesome difficulty in saying which was which, or whowas who, especially as the native women frequentlywore similar skirts, white bodices, and their hairin knots. It was chiefly the beards that betrayedthe gentlemen ; otherwise the equality of thesexes was fairly well established, as to outwardappearance at least, in the way that might astonishsome of our Western reformers. It is true someof the men, like the ancient Egyptians, wore nothingabove th
India impressions, with some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7 [microform] . ossessions as todress distinctions between the sexes, might havesome difficulty in saying which was which, or whowas who, especially as the native women frequentlywore similar skirts, white bodices, and their hairin knots. It was chiefly the beards that betrayedthe gentlemen ; otherwise the equality of thesexes was fairly well established, as to outwardappearance at least, in the way that might astonishsome of our Western reformers. It is true someof the men, like the ancient Egyptians, wore nothingabove the skirt, except perhaps a white scarf onthe shoulders, and the field-workers and cooliesall down the Coromandel coast wore nothing butwhite turbans and waist cloths. We passed the Silver Lake, really an inlet of thesea nearly surrounded by hills, the train startlinglarge flocks of brown geese from the margin as itpassed. Our old friends the white cranes we saw MADRAS AND THE SOUTH 243 again lower down the line among the marshy fields in various stages, often under water,. LADTES OR GENTLEMEN ? (FASHIONS IN SOUTHERN INDIA) irrigation wells drawn by oxen, as well as anotherpattern—like the Hungarian or Egyptian, a walking-beam weighted at one end, the other having a ropeattached to the bucket. The Southern Indian 244 INDIA IMPRESSIONS ones are, however, worked by the natives, generallytwo, working up and down from the centre, fromwhich the beam swings, making it dip and riseagain with bucket, the men steadying themselvesby upright bamboos fixed each side, sometimeschanting a sone to mark the time and enable themto move together. Groves of palms were passed and pyramidalhills, bringing the same suggestion of Egyptwe had had before, on the way to was no doubt about getting further south asthe temperature was much higher, the thermometerregistering 75° to 8o° and this was February 4,whereas only two days before we had been shiver-ing over a fire at D
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