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CHAPTER XVII.
The Promenades of the Fashionable World—Maidan—The Viceroy—British
Dominions in India.
No European or American walks 011 doors in India,
excepting a promenade early in the morning or late in the evening.
They are either carried in palanquins, or, which is more
common, they keep a horse and carriage. Observing the
good old rule of adopting the custom of the country, I also
procured a phaeton and a gray Arab as well as the
indispensable Hindoo driver and runner, and I now invite the reader
to take a ride with me late in the afternoon, when hundreds
of equipages fill the fashionable driveways.
It is five o’clock in the afternoon, and the dim rays of the
setting sun allow.us to lower the top of the carriage so that
we may have an open view all around. But before doing
this, we must exchange the white business suit and
broad-brimmed Indian hat (which are made of the light pith of an
Indian shrub somewhat similar to our elder bush, and
covered with a thin layer of cotton) for the conventional black
hat and coat, for these people are dreadfully ceremonious.
The chandra takes his place in the driver’s seat, and the
badon 011 the steps behind the carriage. They are both
dressed in snow-white outer garments, which look a good
deal like a common nightgown, and ahead dress consisting of
ten yards of white muslin, wound several times around the
head in the shape of a round turban. The Mohammedan
17ft
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