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IS 227.2 Story of an Emigrant.
vantage of the tides in going up or down the river, and also
use a broad oar in the prow of the boat.
RIVER BOAT.
On the west side of the river lies the manufacturing city
Howrah, with the largest railroad depot in India, and
dock-yards extending about two miles. On the east bank,
a short distance above Calcutta are immense warehouses and
hydraulic presses for preparing jute, a kind of hemp. The
largest of these employs three thousand workmen day and
night, and belongs to a Greek firm, Rally Brothers, who are
said to have the greatest mercantile establishment existing.
They own branch houses in thirty-six of the largest
commercial cities of the world.
Amid the happy strains of music we passed up the river.
Stately palm trees in small groups rose above the
surrounding groves, villages, temples and houses, while the dense
foliage of other kinds of trees hung down the river banks
wherever they were allowed to grow. Many of these bore
flowers resembling tulips, acacias, jasmines, etc. Birds of
the most gorgeous colors, but poor songsters, were flitting
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