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294 GOA AND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS.
Two presidencies—the Madras and Bombay—
meet here without mingling. Officers belonging
to the former establishment visit the hills for two
objects, pleasure and health ; those of the latter
service are always votaries of Hygeia. If you ask
the Madrassee how he accounts for the dearth of
amusements, he replies that no one cares how he
gets through his few weeks of leave. The Bom-
bayite, on the contrary, complains loudly and bit-
terly enough of the dull two years he is doomed
to pass at Ooty, but modesty, a consciousness of
inability to remedy the evil, or most likely that
love of a grievance, and lust of grumbling which
nature has implanted in the soldier's breast, pre-
vents his doing anything more. Some public-
spirited individuals endeavoured, for the benefit
of poor Ooty, to raise general subscriptions from
the Madras Service, every member of which has
visited, is visiting, or expects to visit, the region
of health. The result of their laudable endeavours
—a complete failure—instanced the truth of the
ancient adage, that " everybody's business is no-
body's business." Besides the sanitarians and the
pleasure-seekers, there are a few retired and invalid
officers, who have selected the hills as a perma-
nent residence, some coffee - planters, speculators
Two presidencies—the Madras and Bombay—
meet here without mingling. Officers belonging
to the former establishment visit the hills for two
objects, pleasure and health ; those of the latter
service are always votaries of Hygeia. If you ask
the Madrassee how he accounts for the dearth of
amusements, he replies that no one cares how he
gets through his few weeks of leave. The Bom-
bayite, on the contrary, complains loudly and bit-
terly enough of the dull two years he is doomed
to pass at Ooty, but modesty, a consciousness of
inability to remedy the evil, or most likely that
love of a grievance, and lust of grumbling which
nature has implanted in the soldier's breast, pre-
vents his doing anything more. Some public-
spirited individuals endeavoured, for the benefit
of poor Ooty, to raise general subscriptions from
the Madras Service, every member of which has
visited, is visiting, or expects to visit, the region
of health. The result of their laudable endeavours
—a complete failure—instanced the truth of the
ancient adage, that " everybody's business is no-
body's business." Besides the sanitarians and the
pleasure-seekers, there are a few retired and invalid
officers, who have selected the hills as a perma-
nent residence, some coffee - planters, speculators