An English Milliner Resides
In His Neighbourhood, Who Possesses Both Skill And Taste, And Makes
Up Her Silks And Gauzes After The Best French Models; But Necessarily,
Perhaps, The Purchases Made At Her Rooms Are Rather Expensive.
There is quite enough of bustle and animation in this quarter of the
Fort to engage the attention, but
It seems silent and deserted when
compared with the crowd of the more exclusively native portions.
Here the streets literally swarm with life - men, women, children, and
bullocks, filling them almost to suffocation. Ranges of open shops
appear on each side, raised a foot or two from the ground, the
occupant being seated upon a ledge in front, in the midst of
his wares. Here, too, immense quantities of English glass and
crockery-ware are exhibited, which may be purchased at a much cheaper
rate than in shops styled, par distinction, European.
One or two opportunities offering for a visit to what is called the
China Bazaar, I gladly availed myself of them, and was much amused,
as the carriage made its slow way through the multitudes that thronged
the streets, to observe the employments of the people, buying,
selling, manufacturing their goods, or, for want of something else to
do, dragging little children in carts, which, by some contrivance, ran
back across the floor of the narrow apartment, and were then impelled
forward again by means of a string. This I found to be a favourite
occupation, and I never in any place saw more fondness manifested
towards children by their parents than in Bombay, or a greater desire
to associate them in all their amusements.
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