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Title: The science of railways
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Kirkman, Marshall Monroe, 1842-1921
Subjects: Railroads Transportation -- History
Publisher: New York, Chicago : World Railway Pub. Company
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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sidewith the high-caste Brahmin, and outnumberinghim twenty to one, we find a servile population,the aborigines of the peninsula. These conditionshave existed from a time far anterior to the his-torical period. A continent in extent, India pre-sents kindred characteristics. Nowhere are theremore towering mountains, vaster rivers, greaterdeltas, more impen etrable j ungles, or fields possess-ing greater fertility. In one section a temperateclimate and hardy men and women; in anothera torrid sun and the effeminate population suchconditions sometimes breed; in one section aharvest hardly maturing, in another a multiplic-ity of crops annually. In the long ages that have sleepily passed sincemen first emerged from savagery many fantasticforms of carriage have been introduced in thispicturesque country and are still to be foundin active use. They comprise every process,from the half starved and scantily clad native tothe modern railway train; from the poorly fed (157) 158 CARRIAGE IN INDIA.
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The elephant has been used as a royal carrier in India from time imme-morial. The trappings with which these magnificent animals are adorned bythe princes using them as carriers cannot be surpassed in elegance andbrilliancy. This picture is one presented to the author of this work by HisHighness, the Maharana of Maywar, at Oodeypore, India. He not only fur-nished the author pictures of current methods, but, dressing up his elephantsin the armor and habiliments of a thousand years ago, had pictures taken ofthat period also. The author takes occasion here to again tender him hisrespectful and grateful thanks. CARRIAGE IN INDIA. 159 donkey to the magnificently accoutered elephant.The stateliness of the last as a carrier adds to thebeauty and impressiveness of the scene. Whilethe camel is less known and less striking, histrappings and leonine aspect divide with his pon-derous brother our admiration and never endinginterest. The Indian ox, famed for his statelycarriage and enormous strengt

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