. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . n can securethat between you, and will spread out your wraps on the seats,you can have a good nights rest. As to the springs of the car-riages, they are all alike uncomfortable. There is a jar and sud-den jerking, which I found on all the lines. Hence it is muchmore difficult to preserve your axis of vision, in both reading andwriting, than in the easy German carriages, and our still moreeasy American. But I managed to catch up a good deal of losttime on even these trains, by resting my eyes more frequently,and so avoiding a strain. H.
. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . n can securethat between you, and will spread out your wraps on the seats,you can have a good nights rest. As to the springs of the car-riages, they are all alike uncomfortable. There is a jar and sud-den jerking, which I found on all the lines. Hence it is muchmore difficult to preserve your axis of vision, in both reading andwriting, than in the easy German carriages, and our still moreeasy American. But I managed to catch up a good deal of losttime on even these trains, by resting my eyes more frequently,and so avoiding a strain. 78 OF INDIAN TRA On some roads there are Beparate carriages fr ladies andgentlemen. When a man and his wife are travelling they musteach take a separate compartment. One day a gentleman and hiswife came into a first-class compartment and took seats. I cameafterwards, and took my seal also, and wondered what the resultwould be from a lady taking a seat in the gentlemens car. [didnot have to wait Long, for the conductor came to the door and. KOTTIAR CANOES PASSING ROUND BLAND informed the lady that there was accommodation in for her. She Left in greal disgust,and her husband 1i,, stay with me. Of course, the two were strangers in the husband would have escorted his wife to theLadies carriage, and then Looked oul for himself in one wlonlv gentlemen could ride. 206 INDIKA. Children do not travel much in India. At any rate, I saw butfew of them on the trains. They are left at home, in the care ofservants. Nothing being furnished in the matter of bedding, how tospend the night with any comfort becomes a serious questionwhen one has an all-night ride, or perhaps a thousand miles, be-fore him. You must take your own bedding, and when you areready to retire you unroll it over your seat, and then betakeyourself to dreams. On reaching Bombay the Rev. Dr. Fraserwas considerate enough to supply me with a bichauna, or travel-ling outfit for sleep. It was w
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