A glimpse of India; (1909) (14589620450)

Identifier: glimpseofindia00swai (find matches)
Title: A glimpse of India;
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Swain, Clara A., 1834-1910. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, J. Pott & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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il in the presence of twocivil surgeons of the station and Rev. Dr. Johnson ofour mission. Thev were granted certificates for prac-tice in all ordinary diseases. Eleven of them havesince married and left the Orphanage. One has goneto Moradabad to practice medicine and one to Almorawhere her husband has charge of the commissariat de-partment in the leper colony ; five of them remain hereas their husbands are students in the theological school. Rebecca, one of Dr. Humphreys medical class whocame to me at the close of the rainy season last year,is now my assistant in the dispensary. I enclose photos of mv home and of my class. Iam sure you will like the house \ it is a real Orientalhouse such as the Rajahs and Nawabs live in butquite unlike the houses of natives in general which aregenerally enclosed by high walls. The people stand-ing in front of the house and on the veranda are themembers of my class, and the servants of the house-hold. If vou look very closely you will see the old(74)
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Busy Days water-carrier with his great leather bag. All thewater that we use is brought in this goatskin bag.How would you like to drink water from it ? I wasquite disgusted at first but do not stop to think aboutit now. Miss Sparkes and I occupy the upper part of thehouse and at present I am using one of the rooms as adispensary. Some of our native helpers live in thebasement rooms which are verv comfortable. Now that our dispensary building is actually underwav I feel quite content to put up with inconve-niences for I have the assurance of better things in thefuture. The Rev. Air. Judd is overseeing the work-men and as he is a good manager the work is goingon well. There is quite a little army of men, womenand children, all verv busy, in their own estimation,though I can see from mv window that now and thensome of them linger over their loads or sit down be-hind a pile of boards to take a whiff from the huqqa.They call their ^^^-smoking taking a drink fromthe pipe. June io, 1872. AI