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Title: Intimate glimpses of life in India; a narrative of observations, educational, social, and religious, in the winter of 1899-1900
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Ladd, George Trumbull, 1842-1921
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Publisher: Boston, R. G. Badger
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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respected thetraces of the ravages of famine and plague. Indeed,from Mogul Serai eastward, miles of plain, as faraway as the eye could reach in any direction, and 120 Intimate Glimpses of Life vn India level as any of our prairies, were green with tendercroppes; and although it was mid-winter, the richfoliage of beautiful trees greeted the eye,—made toit more grateful because it had become so weariedand almost tearful with the sight of only stuntedand withered bushes and white dust. On awaking the second morning we found our-selves going through a green and swampy countrywith a jungle* not far from either side of roadway,in character better to correspond to the conception 1 had framed of an Indian jungle than did the so-called jungles in Western India. When we arrivedin the station in Howrah, the terminal of the cityof Calcutta, only about twenty minutes late, wefound our host, Dr. Hector, still waiting for us;and we were forthwith conveyed to his residence, No. 2 Cornwallis Square.
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CHAPTER VI GLORIOUS DARJEELING THE Ramayana, that sacred epic which has be-come the Old Testament of one of the Vishnusects of the present day, declares of the mountainsin Northern India: As the dew is dried up by themorning sun, so are the sins of mankind dried upat the sight of Himalchal. In less chaste and piouslanguage a modern traveler has written: WhenGod gave men tongues he never dreamed they wouldwant to talk about the Himalyas; there are conse-quently no words in the world to do it with. Satedas our minds were with the sight of the most mag-nificent works of human architectural skill, now lyingin pathetic half-ruined and neglected condition, wewere ready to turn with the greater eagerness and ina spirit of adoration to a vision of the vaster andmore enduring works of God. Therefore, it wasdetermined to spend the week intervening betweenour arrival in Calcutta and the beginning of thecourse of lectures there, in a visit to Darjeeling fora view of this most glorious of snow-cov

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