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CHAPTER XIII. 



BUILDINGS AND BUNGALOWS. 



THE beginner who breaks land for himself is 

 theoretically supposed to sleep out in the open 

 under an umbrella for the first half-year or so, 

 until his estate is commencing to take form and 

 shape. Really, however, there is no need for such 

 Spartan devotion, and we cannot too strongly advise 

 that decent and weather-proof habitations for him- 

 self and his men should be one of the planter's 

 earliest cares. He will understand before he has 

 been under its influence long that the Indian climate 

 is not a thing to be played with, more particularly 

 in districts best suited to Coffee culture. On 

 the mountain sides, where the plants thrive, the 

 Englishman feels alternately tropical heat and 

 very penetrating, damp cold. Often when he turns 

 out at five o'clock in the morning, and sips his 

 hot Coffee, while the coolies are mustering for 

 the day's work on the drying ground below, the 

 forests are still dark and chill, the dew lying 

 heavily on the low herbage; the Englishman then 

 feeling as much affection for his log fire as he 

 might on a November morning at home. Between 

 eight and nine the estate and woods are pleasant 



