The Wellesley Magazine, Vol. 5 May, 1897 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Wellesley Magazine, Vol. 5: May, 1897 For the purpose of engaging in such works, the people are brought to gether in camps. At one camp twenty-five miles from Ahmednagar, a. While ago, ten thousand people, many from villages and towns at some dis tance, were encamped together. Some weeks ago we visited a smaller settlement seven miles away, and, in order to make the scene real, I propose to tell briefly what we saw there. We drove seven miles to a barren, stony hillside. The fields around' us should have been showing their heavy ears of grain, - promise of a coming harvest. Instead, they were brown and diy, except at rare intervals, where the happy owner of a well had his own carefully-watered little crop, which by dint of patient irrigation he had brought to maturity. The grass, guilt less of green blades, had been nibbled to its very roots by wandering herds of hungry cattle, and rivers and, streams showed only sandy beds or stagnant pools scarce fit for animals. The camp was on the brow of a low, rolling hill. Here, planted in rows, close together, were small bamboo huts, for the laborers to occupy while at. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.