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NEW GOA.
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the god Shiva himself might own with pride. They
have private apartments in the barracks, full of
wives and children, and consider themselves per-
sonages of no small importance ; in which opinion
thej are, we believe, by no means singular. Their
fellow-countrymen look upon them as heroes, and
have embalmed, or attempted to embalm their
breakjaw names in immortal song. They are, in
fact, negro Robin Hoods and Dick Turpins—knights
of the road and the waste it is true, but not
accounted the less honourable for belonging to that
celebrated order of chivalry. The real Maharatta
is by nature a thorough-bred plunderer, and well
entitled to sing the Suliot ditty—
" KXecpreg ttots Hapyav, " *
with the slight variation of locality only. Be-
sides, strange to say, amongst Orientals, they have
a well-defined idea of what patriotism means, and
can groan under the real or fancied wrongs of the
" stranger" or the " Sassenach's " dominion as loudly
and lustily as any Hibernian or Gael in the land.
We now leave Phonde Sawunt and the Barracks
to thread our way through a numerous and dis-
agreeable collection of yelping curs and officious
boatmen.
* " All thieves at Farga."
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the god Shiva himself might own with pride. They
have private apartments in the barracks, full of
wives and children, and consider themselves per-
sonages of no small importance ; in which opinion
thej are, we believe, by no means singular. Their
fellow-countrymen look upon them as heroes, and
have embalmed, or attempted to embalm their
breakjaw names in immortal song. They are, in
fact, negro Robin Hoods and Dick Turpins—knights
of the road and the waste it is true, but not
accounted the less honourable for belonging to that
celebrated order of chivalry. The real Maharatta
is by nature a thorough-bred plunderer, and well
entitled to sing the Suliot ditty—
" KXecpreg ttots Hapyav, " *
with the slight variation of locality only. Be-
sides, strange to say, amongst Orientals, they have
a well-defined idea of what patriotism means, and
can groan under the real or fancied wrongs of the
" stranger" or the " Sassenach's " dominion as loudly
and lustily as any Hibernian or Gael in the land.
We now leave Phonde Sawunt and the Barracks
to thread our way through a numerous and dis-
agreeable collection of yelping curs and officious
boatmen.
* " All thieves at Farga."