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230,
Story of an Emigrant.
floors, no furniture, and the onlv utensils are a few bowls of
clay for cooking, baking vessels of brass, some straw mats
spread on the clay floor to sleep on during the night. The
country is low and flat, and during the wet season, which
lasts from July to October, destructiye inundations are quite
frequent.
Our steamers soon approached Barrackpoor, a garrisoned
city on the east bank of the river. This place, which is one
of the summer residences of the viceroy, has a very beautiful
NATIVE HOUSES.
park, where there arc several samples of the remarkable
banyan or sacred fig-tree. From the branches of the tree
certain shoots grow downward, and when they reach the
ground they strike root and grow into new trunks, so that
one and the same tree finally covers a vast space of ground,
and looks like a pillared hall. In the park at Barrackpoor
may’ be seen one of these trees, large enough to cover one
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