140 VEGETABLES GROWN IN THE HILLS. 



on one estate, and the majority of the hitter having at 

 least two hundred acres under coffee, requiring upwards 

 of a hundred hands throughout the year, it is often 

 puzzhng to remember names, since so many sound 

 ahke to the uninitiated ; some are called after the 

 legendary Hindu deities, others again seem to be 

 known only by the name of the village they sprang 

 from, and as thus there are frequently several under 

 the same condition in one gang, they add a distinctive 

 adjective, such as Doda elder, Chicka younger, or Dodee 

 and Chickee in the case of a female, etc. 



After tiffin, whilst the dhoray was attending 

 to liis daily duties, I accompanied his wife to her 

 kitchen-garden, which she seemed not a little proud of, 

 and well she might be, for I have seldom seen one 

 better stocked with vegetables ; there 1 noticed lettuce, 

 beans, peas, carrots, yams, cabbage, tomatoes, brinjal 

 or egg plant, sweet potatoes, and even Indian corn, 

 besides a row of roselle shrubs (Hibiscus sardariffa), 

 the red sorrel of the West Indies, which has a pretty 

 yellow flower, deep purple in the centre, and bears a 

 bright crimson fruit, making a delicious preserve not 

 unlike damson jam. During the dry season this 

 garden is daily irrigated by narrow channels cut 

 between every row of beds, and at the time was under 

 the charge of a very fanatical, fat, jet-black Hindu, 



