Native Bhisti of Bombay
“A very useful man is the Bhisti, and, relatively speaking, a hardworking individual. He carries upon his hip the entire skin of a goat, the body and legs of which are sewn up, the neck only being left open. This is called a mussock, and it is with this utensil that he performs the many duties of his calling.
It might be supposed that for the purpose of carrying water from one place to another, a pail would be a more convenient article […]. There was once a planter who – being new to manners Eastern – thought to economise time and labour by providing his coolies with wheelbarrows, in place of the little baskets with which labourers customarily transport earth. On going to see what strides the sources of civilization had enabled them to make with their work, he found the coolies carrying the barrows on their heads […]."
in Coleman, F. M., Typical Pictures of Indian Natives Bombay: "Time of India" Office, and Thacker & Co. 1903
“A very useful man is the Bhisti, and, relatively speaking, a hardworking individual. He carries upon his hip the entire skin of a goat, the body and legs of which are sewn up, the neck only being left open. This is called a mussock, and it is with this utensil that he performs the many duties of his calling.
It might be supposed that for the purpose of carrying water from one place to another, a pail would be a more convenient article […]. There was once a planter who – being new to manners Eastern – thought to economise time and labour by providing his coolies with wheelbarrows, in place of the little baskets with which labourers customarily transport earth. On going to see what strides the sources of civilization had enabled them to make with their work, he found the coolies carrying the barrows on their heads […]."
in Coleman, F. M., Typical Pictures of Indian Natives Bombay: "Time of India" Office, and Thacker & Co. 1903
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The pictures are soooo beautiful.
I like your blog and I would like it even more if you would put more of your own writings. Like from your travel diaries and your poems.
I think that you know and have enough stories of your own... and I always want to reread them.
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