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180.2 Story of an Emigrant.
others listen to the music from peculiarly constructed flutes
and drums, which vie with each other in producing the most
car-rending discord. Elegantly covered carriages swarm in
four lines up and down the road. Most of the occupants
are Englishmen with their ladies; but you may also see
quite a number of Hindoo princes or noblemen with their
ladies in oriental costumes, or Parsee merchants in black
silk coats .and high caps. To the right there is a veritable
forest of ship’s masts extending along the beach for miles,
and to the left sonic native soldiers are being drilled. We
drive down and have a chat with the English officers and
stop to sec a game of polo played, the native cavalry
contesting with their English officers, all displaying a wonderful
skill. Every now and then a couple of young Englishmen or
officers 011 horseback meet each other, and yonder are two
half-naked Hindoos 011 a jog-trot carrying a load which
looks like a big coflin, but which turns out to be a palanquin
occupied by a passenger who, in an inclined position, smokes
his cigar and takes as much comfort as lie can get in that
primitive mode of traveling. But see there! At a given
sign hundreds of men arrange themselves in long rows with
their faccs turned to the west, just as the sun sinks below
the horizon; they prostrate themselves with their faces
turned toward Mecca, and say their evening prayers. They
arc Mohammedans.
Returning we stop at the gate to the Eden garden
where a large number of equipages have already arrived
before us, compelling us to wait for our turn to drive up and
get out of the carriage. The garden is now illuminated by
thousands ofgas and electric lights; men, women and children
walk forth and back on the soft grass plats; the military
band plays well-known tunes; Chinese, Parsees, Jews,
Hindoos and Arabs, in the most varied costumes, mingle with
each other and with the Europeans. There are plenty of
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