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Fording the River Parbutti-India

(165) Of entering the water, the natives quickly of straw easy-chairs, and a lantern, formpropel it to the opposite bank. ing bed-room and sitting-room in one.

The traveller is now transferred to a course, so cumbrous a machine progresses conveyance known as a chopaya-a kind but slowly, and affords a notable conof triumphal car, with gaily-painted body trast to the mail-cart, which, driven by a and little sculptured pillars, drawn by a lanky Indian and drawn by a team of oxen, caparisoned with red three or four horses, dashes past at a cloth. It measures about eight feet by tremendous pace, up hill and down hill, five, and is furnished in the interior with across narrow bridges, through brawling mattresses and cushions, a table, a couple streams, as if accidents were impossible.