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Title: Wanderings east of Suez in Ceylon, India, China and Japan
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Penfield, Frederic Courtland, 1855-1922
Subjects: East Asia -- Description and travel India -- Description and travel Sri Lanka -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : George Bell and Sons New York : Century co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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member of the nobilityis for a Briton to belong to the Royal BombayYacht Club, for it gives him the cachet to every-thing Asiatic. The club-house on the Apollo Bun-der possesses the best situation on the waterfront, and from its verandas fashionables watchmatches that are sailed with consummate skill.During winter months foot-ball appeals stronglyto the soldier class, while motor-car races andtrials appear to be daily events. It is the horse that is king, however, in Bom-bays pastimes. The Hunt Club sends the smartset to the suburbs now and then, and tent-peggingand pig-sticking draw biggish audiences from themilitary class whenever contests are announced.But the paramount sport of the masses is horse-racing, pure and simple. The course is on theplains a few miles out of town, close to a suburbgiven over to cotton-mills, where nearly as manyspindles fly as at Fall River. All Bombay seemsto be at the races, irrespective of religious or so-cial distinctions—everyone present loves the
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The Parsee horse and appears possessed of a goodly supply ofrupees with which to back his selections. The Jockey Club has its own lawn and privateenclosure on the stand, and there is a box for thegovernor and anybody coming from GovernmentHouse. The grand-stand bears a minor impor-tance to the betting ring, for the latter holds asurging, throbbing medley of humanity—societyfolk from Indias innermost official set, sleek Par-sees wearing gold rimmed eye-glasses, rajahs fromall parts, wealthy merchants and bankers, fez-wearing Mohammedans from the world of Islam,men from the Persian Gulf in astrachan head-gear, Pathans from beyond the Himalayas, Sikhsfrom the Punjab—as can be gathered in greatIndia, the museum of the human race. Three score book-makers howl their bargains inraucous tones, and a whirlwind of rupee paperpasses to the strong boxes. The crowd is backingthe favorites. Even the Arab horse dealers fromthe Bhendi bazaar, manly fellows in the garb ofdesert sheikhs, whose pock

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