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Following the Equator
Part 5

CHAPTER XLIX
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CHAPTER XLIX.
He had had much experience of physicians, and said "the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what; you don't like, and do what you'd druther not." -- Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar.
It was a long journey--two nights, one day, and part of another day, from Bombay eastward to Allahabad; but it was always interesting, and it was not fatiguing.

At first the, night travel promised to be fatiguing, but that was on account of pyjamas.

This foolish night-dress consists of jacket and drawers.

Sometimes they are made of silk, sometimes of a raspy, scratchy, slazy woolen material with a sandpaper surface.

The drawers are loose elephant-legged and elephant-waisted things, and instead of buttoning around the body there is a drawstring to produce the required shrinkage.


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