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INDIA

Madras ; no sea-breezes sighing amongst casuarina trees
such as those which put daily life into the heat-worn
European sojourners in Madras. It is not so very long
since the days when the voyager was cast headlong from
a masulah boat on to the shore. He can now step
out of his ship on to a pier. Madras is notable for the
“black town” (or native quarter), for its bright red
streets, and for the broad avenues which connect the

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city with the European quarters; for its “marina”
or sea promenade, and, above all, for its early association
with the apostle St. Thomas, who is supposed (on
authority which Sir W. Hunter shows to be quite untrustworthy)
 to have been martyred near the hill which
now bears his name, about the year A.D. 68.
About equi-distant from Bombay and Madras, but
edging towards the east coast, is the great native state
capital Haidarabad. In climate and in surroundings
this city and the overgrown series of military cantonments
which lie bevond it does not differ largely from Poona