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upon the things they had seen as they were taking their ride on this and past mornings. 

 He had now got, as has been said, a facility of using occasional words of English, and he 

 brought them in once in a while with the most amusing effect. 



INDIANS TALK WITH LASCAES. 



He said they had found another place where there were two more Ojibbeway Indians 

 (as he called them), Lascars, sweeping the streets; and it seems that after passing them 

 they had ordered their 'bus to stop, and called them up and shook hands, and tried to 

 talk with them. They could speak a few words in English, and so could Jim. He was 

 enabled to ask them if they were Ojibbeways, and they to answer, " No, they were 

 Mussulmen." " Where you live?" "Bombay." " You sweep dirt in the road?" 

 11 Yes." " Dam fool ! " Jim gathered a handful of pennies and gave them, and they 

 drove off. 



INDIANS DISCOVER " GIN-PALACES. " 



It seemed that in their drive this day Jim and the doctor had both rode outside, 

 which had afforded to Jim the opportunity of seeing to advantage, for the first time, the 

 immense number of " gin-palaces, " as they passed along the streets; and into which 

 they could look from the top of the 'bus, and distinctly see the great number of large 

 kegs, and what was going on inside. The doctor had first discovered them in his nu- 

 merous outside rides, and as he was not quite sure that he had rightly understood them, 

 hearing that the English people detested drunkards so much, he had not ventured to 

 say much about them. He had been anxious for the corroboration of Jim's sharper eyes, 

 and during this morning they had fully decided that the hundreds of such places they 

 were in all directions passing were places where people went to drink chickabobboo, and 

 they were called chickabobbooags. The conversation of Jim and the doctor enlarged very 

 much on this grand discovery, and the probable effects they had upon the London 

 people. They had seen many women, and some of them with little babies in their 

 arms, standing and lying around them, and they were quite sure that some of those 

 women were drunk. Jim said that he and the doctor had counted two or three hun- 

 dred in one hour. Some of the party told him he had made his story too big, so he 

 said he and the doctor next day would mark them down on a stick. Jim said there was 

 one street they came through, where he hoped they would never drive them again, for 

 it made their hearts sore to see so many women and little children all in dirty rags; 

 they had never seen any Indians in the wilderness half so poor and looking so sick. 

 He was sure they had not half enough to eat. He said he thought it was wrong to send 

 missionaries from this to Indian country, when there were so many poor creatures here 

 who want their help, and so many thousands as they saw goinginto the chickabobuooags 

 to drink fire-water. 



He said they came through a very grand street, where everything looked so fine and 

 splendid in the windows, and where the ladies looked so beautiful in their carriages, 

 many of them lying quite down, and seemed as if they were very rich and happy ; and 

 some of them lay in their carriages, that were standing still, so as to let them read 

 their books. And in this same grand street they saw a great many fine-looking ladies 

 walking along the sides of the roads, and looking back at the gentlemen as they passed 

 by them. These ladies, he and the doctor observed, looked young, and all looked very 

 smiling, and they thought they wanted husbands. A great deal, Jim said, they had 

 seen of these ladies as they were every day looking out of their own windows in St. 

 James street. A great many of these women, he said, behave very curious; he sail 

 he didn't know for certain but some of these might be chimegolehes. This excited a tre- 

 mendous laugh with the doctor and several of the young men, and made some of the 

 women smile, though it was rather hushed by the chiefs as an imprudent word for Jim 

 to apply in the present case. This did little, however, to arrest the effects of Jim's 

 joke, and he continued with some further ingenious embellishments, which set the 



