SANTAN'S " GAGE D'AMOUR." 1 1 



exported at five rupees a cwt., and sold here to the shops 

 and natives. The business offices are on the first floor. It 

 looked very odd to see rows of black clerks all dressed in 

 white, writing in a nearly dark room. 



This morning an ayah was found for me, and she has been 

 all day having what they call a " hierh old time" amongst 

 my clothes, packing up and getting out warm clothes for 

 Kashmir and the Hills. Alan has also got a Portuguese 

 servant who is called indifferently "Butler" or "Boy," 

 although he is gray-headed, and a scion of the noble 

 Portuguese family of the Da Souzas. We always call him 

 " Santan," his Christian name, for he really has been 

 baptised, and is " same religion and gets drunk like Massa." 



Thursday. — We left Kurrachee by the 9.30 p.m. train 

 for Lahore, nearly a two days' railway journey. A very 

 nice carriage with two compartments and a bath room was 

 reserved for us, and, as you carry your bedding about every- 

 where in India, the servants soon made things comfortable 

 for the night, A large party came to see us off, but nothing 

 like the number who came to bid adieu to my woman and 

 Alan's man, the latter being particularly popular. We think 

 Santan gave Alan's cherished white umbrella as a gage 

 d 'amour to some one, as it has vanished and he mourns 

 much for its loss, although he cannot use it in the train, and 

 won't want it shooting, but it makes his lists wrong and 

 that vexes him. 



