98 JUNE 



in the punkah poles had been taken out. Natives 

 are very fond of brass. It was quite impossible to 

 keep an eye on everything, so jammed up as it all 

 was. 



However, we were all straight again before 

 Christmas, and the rockery was done and planted 

 out, a border about 320 feet long, and christened 

 the "Punkah-wallah's Walk." These plants are 

 now some of them a tremendous size, and each will 

 divide into dozens of pots, and still leave some for 

 the rockery. All the numerous Ferns, and Dieffen- 

 bachias, and Calladiums, are from very small begin- 

 nings. Just a pot or two of each kind, divided at 

 the proper time into good earth, and now there are 

 quantities. This is very economical gardening, and 

 so much more interesting than getting plants ready 

 grown by some one else. 



About a month after the earthquake, we had 

 another experience, riots. These were begun by 

 a dispute about a piece of land that was sold by 

 a Mahomedan to a Hindoo. The Hindoo bought 

 it with the intention of building himself a house 

 on it. To do this, he began to demolish a little 

 old mosque that was in the way. The Mahom- 



