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Carnaby The First.
The landscape SAviuis at a mile or two distance . A restless , silently-undulating mirage , glancing like quicksilver , stretches around you . You cannot breathe in the hot air—only gasp . Afar off , some strip-like , latitudinal belts of dusky A erdure proclaim a space of Indian forest , Aidiich hums and buzzes with innumerable insects . You almost fancy you can hear the
murmur , like a distant cascade . Nature , in fact , seemeth to force the heat into life . On the horizon are some bright blue mountains—in one place soaring into peaks , each , almost , with its crown of blazing cloud . Here they are ranged and terraced out like airy bastions and battlements . Only look up ! Consider the depth of blue . Is not that a scorching azure
?purple , nearly , in its intensity , and spread out like a universe . To speak fact , the sky is nearly as deep as midnight in the purple of its own inexpressible glory . At the spot Avhere we are surveying this picture , behold a group of Indian travellers , small in number , but great in their sense of this Indian afternoon . They sit on shauds in a A ^ ariety of elegant attitudes , all indicative of profound heat . Supported
on poles are a series of canvas screens , which form a kind of impromptu pavilion and keep out that searching sun , which seems alive and pertinacious enough in its determination to enter . Sleep—sleep seems to pervade all the world Avithout this little snug encampment . Within all is sufficiently busy , as far as tongue is concerned . The club consists of six . They
are gathered in conclave , three on one side , and three , very naturally , on the other . Beyond them are seen sundry black heads , which belong to their servants , and over these again are the long crooked necks , and gaunt , piteous physiognomies of some half-dozen camels—patient , sleepy , and stupid . Here and there amidst the blackies are long straight spears , sticking
up like needles , each with a little sarsnet of different colour dangling about the spear-point , for a pennon . Some distance off , seen from under the miniature colonnade constituted by the reeds ( bent all Avays ) that supported the patchwork pavilion , and casting his huge black shadoAv far in , Avas a goodly elephant , whose great sturdy legs , and long dependent ears , were most if not all that Avas disclosed of him . The six
" Potent , grave , and reverend seigniors , " must be severally introduced . First , and nearest to the observer , is—1 . Per kin Peterkin : a man of many countries , for his father ( be he living or dead , Avhich deponent sayeth not ) was an Englishman of such sturdy independence that he never paid
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Carnaby The First.
The landscape SAviuis at a mile or two distance . A restless , silently-undulating mirage , glancing like quicksilver , stretches around you . You cannot breathe in the hot air—only gasp . Afar off , some strip-like , latitudinal belts of dusky A erdure proclaim a space of Indian forest , Aidiich hums and buzzes with innumerable insects . You almost fancy you can hear the
murmur , like a distant cascade . Nature , in fact , seemeth to force the heat into life . On the horizon are some bright blue mountains—in one place soaring into peaks , each , almost , with its crown of blazing cloud . Here they are ranged and terraced out like airy bastions and battlements . Only look up ! Consider the depth of blue . Is not that a scorching azure
?purple , nearly , in its intensity , and spread out like a universe . To speak fact , the sky is nearly as deep as midnight in the purple of its own inexpressible glory . At the spot Avhere we are surveying this picture , behold a group of Indian travellers , small in number , but great in their sense of this Indian afternoon . They sit on shauds in a A ^ ariety of elegant attitudes , all indicative of profound heat . Supported
on poles are a series of canvas screens , which form a kind of impromptu pavilion and keep out that searching sun , which seems alive and pertinacious enough in its determination to enter . Sleep—sleep seems to pervade all the world Avithout this little snug encampment . Within all is sufficiently busy , as far as tongue is concerned . The club consists of six . They
are gathered in conclave , three on one side , and three , very naturally , on the other . Beyond them are seen sundry black heads , which belong to their servants , and over these again are the long crooked necks , and gaunt , piteous physiognomies of some half-dozen camels—patient , sleepy , and stupid . Here and there amidst the blackies are long straight spears , sticking
up like needles , each with a little sarsnet of different colour dangling about the spear-point , for a pennon . Some distance off , seen from under the miniature colonnade constituted by the reeds ( bent all Avays ) that supported the patchwork pavilion , and casting his huge black shadoAv far in , Avas a goodly elephant , whose great sturdy legs , and long dependent ears , were most if not all that Avas disclosed of him . The six
" Potent , grave , and reverend seigniors , " must be severally introduced . First , and nearest to the observer , is—1 . Per kin Peterkin : a man of many countries , for his father ( be he living or dead , Avhich deponent sayeth not ) was an Englishman of such sturdy independence that he never paid