Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . THE POPULAR MADRAS HUNT. In the streets of Madras as in all these Eastern citiesmay be seen every possible occupation going on before theface and eyes of the world. Here are the weavers and thecarpenters and the shoemakers and the barbers, and every-where the inevitable throng of loafers. It is not at all uncommon to see a row of old men andwomen, and younger ones, too, for that matter, sitting inthe glaring sunlight engaged in the Madras hunt, wherethe unhappy hunting grounds are each others hea
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . THE POPULAR MADRAS HUNT. In the streets of Madras as in all these Eastern citiesmay be seen every possible occupation going on before theface and eyes of the world. Here are the weavers and thecarpenters and the shoemakers and the barbers, and every-where the inevitable throng of loafers. It is not at all uncommon to see a row of old men andwomen, and younger ones, too, for that matter, sitting inthe glaring sunlight engaged in the Madras hunt, wherethe unhappy hunting grounds are each others heads. One day a wedding procession passed by. Three silent- s& a. bratty makers and punkah-wallahs. 333 treading, knock-kneed, ragged camels led the way, coveredwith bright cloths and much tinsel. There seemed to belittle merriment or life about the procession, and I presumethe poor young girl who was going to the home of her agedhusband, whom perhaps she had never seen, felt as melan-choly as the solemn procession seemed to indicate. The extreme pov-erty of the people isperhaps nowhere moreindicated than by the (/-jj|women whose businessit is to pick up every v/particle of manure from tthe streets, and to make •it into flat cakes ( Brat-ty as it is called),which they dry uponthe sides of the wallsof the houses. Then itis picked off and soldfor fuel. Hundreds ofthese women with high-piled baskets of thisfuel are met with every-where as one goes aboutthe streets. The punkah-wallah, too, or the man who pulls thehuge fans with which every office, dining-room, parlor, andchurch is provided, is a well-known character in Madras, asin all Southern India.
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