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BELGAON Charles Johnston. Early November 1889.   It was a heartening sight in the approaching twilight, to see the servants and orderlies, aided by It was a heartening sight in the approaching twilight, to see the servants and orderlies, aided by impressed village watchmen, clearing a fair space for the camp, under shady mango trees at the village of Belgaon. They scraped the sandy soil clean, laid on it a thick layer of sweet-smelling rice straw, and spread on this blue-and-white cotton ca...

KANDI SUBDIVISION Charles Johnston January 1890   The Civil Station celebrated the Nativity by a tiger-shoot and a pig stick, under the auspices of Thereafter the said mad dog, realizing, I suppose, that it was all up with him, in true Eastern fashion ran amuck, biting and snapping at his colleagues till the whole bazar was a canine pandemonium. Having suffered in honor, the Deputy Magistrate now got his opportunity for revenge on the pariah dogs.

THE MURDER OF BUDDUN DAS Charles Johnston. Second Week Of May 1889.   Wonderful Mother India! As I made my way through the blazing heat across the

OUT-OF-DOOR-LIFE   During the colder months (November-March) many Government officials were required  to travel about their districts on inspection Camping life is, indeed, a delightful institution of India. The itinerary of the district tour is mapped out, and preparations are made for a three or four months’ gipsy existence under the skies, but accompanied with the refinement of comfort which the Anglo-Indian knows so well how to secure under such conditions; for tent-life has been bro...

AN INDIAN SCHOOL Charles Johnston. Early November 1889.   We came back to our tents after a gallop in the cool of the morning, and found the little All at once the minas are silent, peering about in suspicious alarm; then, scolding shrilly, they rise and whirr away past our tent to a deeper shade, the grey squirrels seek safety in an upper branch, and even the busy woodpecker pauses for a moment to peep down into a glade beside us. The cause of this woodland panic was soon disclosed in the ...

THE PHANTOM PALKI. Charles Johnston. Late November 1889.   I remember a certain camping ground in the cool heart of a mango grove. The lucid air was They were very respectful, nay, deferential, for all their kidnapping, and if I had had some breakfast, say some good coffee and rolls, it would not have been half bad. But I was beastly hungry and getting hungrier. What had become of Punaswami of the scarlet turban, I could not even speculate on.

  THE BENGAL BAZAAR Charles Johnston. November 1889.   India is a ruin, beautiful only by moonlight; and, like a ruined temple, old India’s

CHOLERA Charles Johnston February 1890   The pariah dogs were forgotten in the sterner, depressing duties of the cholera epidemic, which came down The pariah dogs were forgotten in the sterner, depressing duties of the cholera epidemic, which came down upon Kandi Subdivision two months before its time

  THE ENGLISH IN INDIA PART II. ⸻ Part two of "The English in India" in Charles Johnston's story:   ⸻   The men who made up the