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IS 244.2
Story of an Emigrant.
taining his autograph, which is reproduced here as a sample
ol the hand-writing of an educated Hindoo:
Our refreshments at the fete consisted of dainties prepared
by native cooks. Cream, rice, sugar, eggs, fish, flour, and
spices were the chief ingredients of the different courses.
Champagne and other European drinks were served with
the courses, and after the repast we were offered coffee,
and the servants brought wash basins and towels. Finally
the major dotno passed an urn-shaped golden goblet,
placed 011 a gold tray. In this goblet was a fine sponge
soaked with attar of roses, which costs about a dollar a drop,
and in which the guests dipped the tips of their fingers and
moistened their foreheads and clothes. The least contact
with this attar causes a fragrance which lasts for months.
Neither on this occasion nor at any other festivity ar-
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