1961-11-18 — Page 18

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1961,

Roderick Mana

Roderick Mann off on his travels.

HAD arrived-tired, sleepy, and a trifle irritable at six in the morning And they had given me c room direct-

ly above the bar.

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"I asked for a quiet room," I

said.

"Yo zuk: The my said.

dringing

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auf 10470 120

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ALLINN,

TO GO round the world to stop off at will report on the places he sees and the romantic-sounding islands where the women people he meets. In this, his first report, are beautiful and the sun is always shining-- he takes you to India's top school for snake that is the daydream of many of us. To bring charmers; to the famed Taj Mahal; and lets that daydream a little closer, one of our top you listen in on a conversation he had with columnists is on a round the world trip. He a Tibetan refugee at Katmandu.

meet the dons-at

the College of

Snake Charmers

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ordered

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a steak For

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1 knew

I would have a surfest by the

time 1

was through

The Wall

steak.

SWEK MILA

The Ashoka.

State conteviled

Up until th

My hotel,

and beach here"

impendiately

Interest

ed and he turned the car off

the mar road and drove 10.

a mile up rocky track until

We vouja ku no further

JaFl

We then

walked the alt-muie to Molar Bund, winch Suried out to be a small village of about 100 buts.

and

A bed was brought out the chef. 70-year-old Hiranth. Essed ou to greet 45.

Yes. he said, this

wus

AND MY BED-SIDE SEAT AT A

'COMMAND SHOW' COSTS ME 45s.

Canter cujar was

bod

i- hought out their by-kres

Ifa

ou pipe

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Swaying

He grinned

blackened # gin. The snakes were still shihering about so. I did nol arg

we

on,

"Enery man

should have four wives A Hindu wife to bear children; a Persian unfe for conversation: (71 Afghan wife to keep house,

1170 મ Turkish wife to beat example to others."

As

an

pard up: 30 rupees (aboul 45), and

pressed through the crowded traffic of nyped the obras, way. ** carte, goats, elephants, A siray bicycles and sacred cows to

the Taj Mahal.

and began

around

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from its basket itself wrap

chuc

who gungly fully

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town: an to de-

my

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The snakes were still slithering about, so I did not argue. I paid up.

devou

the

same

know,

extre

Arranged

dead are placed on towers to ne: Hing in the valley at the foot his way, still grinning. be devoured by vultures.

che Himalayas.

Then it was time to fly back As we watched the

I knew I would enjoy the to New Delhi and prepare to bathing and praying in the place when I read on my hotel move on. water my hos! said: "You brochure;

"Devil dances PET- The driver who picked me up know, India is not лearly

as formed

monks from at the airport was the spiritual as we like to make out. Buddhist monasterics in the man who had driven me To

on the lawn of the Agra earlier in the week, New Delhi itself, built by the We are not quite so materialistic evening British. is dull

as America and Britain perhaps, hotel by the light

"Master." he said, "you have of bonfires uninspiring monument

but we are getting that way. Advance notice required."

come back." What are all those people Well, ported Empire glory.

I didn't stay

That master Lit. they long praying for, do you think? For

for the devil dances, but is always good for an enough 3 found Benares infinitely health,

happiness. wealth, and

I did meet my first Tibetan. He dve rupees. more interesting. Every day strong children. The same was one of the hundreds who

down to the things you pray for in Henceforth," wrote Edward thousands scurry

your swarmed over em, ter the world be divided banks

the Himalayan of the Ganges to bathe country.

passes when the Chinese have been vitten See" le rust forward un

into tam classes them as has in the waters. Many actually Today

India has progressed invaded Tibel. from the bullock cart age into Now seen the Taj Mahal and them clean their teeth in it.

he was living in arm pauctured with little blue

He was getting married, he said "Actually," tie as hasa't."

the bicycle age. holes. Bes

And whereas foothills just outside Katmandu, said, in two weeks' time. It bad panion, an Indian business man, in the '40s the expectation of coming into market only occa- all been arranged. The girl had danger. We love the antidote

it is 47. sionally. Hiranth thrust a cobra at me.

bern picked by his parents. we But the task of holding

as it appears. The Ganges,

My interpreter from the botel behind the neck.

A nearby guide was mumble have discovered, contains radio- million people most of whom said the Tibetans bathed only if he had mouth was forced ing away the usual tourist stuff am.! Sarm fanes revealed.

once every 10 years and I saw matter? abon how long the Taj Mahaictive substances which give it live in squalor:

This explados whom sleep powera. "The Ines grow again," he took to build and how much it curative

reason to disbelieve him. said Che must be careful."

ever one is st, but I was not interested. Why no

from it." It

the best

from IL. suppose

The important thing, j

I cannot, says Nehru, be left sation with me, me standing up snake-homing exhibiti

Further away were the bura- was that here seemed to me,

enterprise, which hove

tomb the

Empress ing ghats

dead

"You know Queen?" believes in the monstrous philo- cremated in the open and sophy North Mumlaz-i-Mahal, buil!

between are 1632 and 1650 by the their ashes cast into the Ganges, lte Boeus min very

who loved her Shah Benares is a holy city, and Nehru steers the Jeban, Fifth Mogul Emperor of many believe that to die there wards Socialism.

means to pass on to & higher Incarnation. So the city is per- Great lies in a tomb live miles manently full of old people. Devil dances

anxiously awaiting the end. "I hav becn F201 expensive nothing as magnificent 25 the The burning ghats show. Ar aid, "iye of cur Taj Mahal, but I And he did gruesome sight. But less shock- I made one side trip while be people. A Command Per- leave this bit of advice ing perhaps than the Parsee I was here that I will not easily formance,

funerals in Bombay, where the forget to Katmandu in Nepal,

so that m-

open

came

No dved the University of Snake

Car Top

people from all over the place- Cluna,

- learn how to TB 20 Ceylon catch snekes. extraci their poleon, and charm them

year They hud seed steak.

apparentis, bu then 1oft

Nehru's Pitcai

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mane 1 an election Posit

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Cow

tourists a cleBenger

Next day stuks de hope&tand from the Aloka mem

Friend here were most anxious that ) should scr a fair cross-seu dien of India Delhi, Benares, Calcutta. Wilh Of

have ever seen them Afme

~RAL and

all

Over

A

He himself had been working with snake, since he was eight.

Hena rany snakes were there There W.X 121 thr &”4RTT" About 1,000), per and they

ond python. stakes o everythi Snake charmers went out frem tur ear-wheels. his village to work and towel: A: Thu clos 11 all over India. Would I care to see a performance?

would

White

sat cross-legged an The bed, five of his top practi-

NOW-

take

E

good look!

RONSON

H.ranth

Well, he had something. really is a stunning sight.

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behind

where Hindu

thousands of in the streets in o

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I wished him luck and asked had any say in the

"None," he said, "but then, 90 per cent of marriages

infected places like Calcutta-is gigantic. This was the Tibetan's conver India are still arranged by

В are

GREAT ANIMAL STORIES,

ONE of the most delightful animal books of recent [years was Seal Morning Hutchinson), from which this :s on extract. In it, Rowena Farre described o child- hood in a remote croft in Sutherlandshire, where she lived with her Aunt Miriam and Lare, her pet seal

SINCE ancient

times

it has been known that seals are attracted

by music and singing. They have perhaps the largest

vocal range

among mammals.

Their

reportoire

includes

grunts, sneris, barks, peculiar mewing, bisses, and a wail that often rises from a deep bass to

a treble.

Lora's musical talent carne out early. When I played a simple time al a fairly

bars of steadily

| Nace with

slow

ascending and descending

notes she made valiant efforts

to follow the music in a tuneless

wail.

Within a week she was able

Imagine

having

to play

private 10

proft"

of grand and private So slowly but surely

Fis country

to

wind:

"No." NO.

"You know Brigitte Bardot?" "Yes." "Which better?"

I said I didn't know. He then grinned widely, revealing giant blackened fangs, and dug into some his pocket bringing out uncooked rice and meat which he handed to me.

I told him I would ent it later, and he went happily

by ROWENA FARRE

DRAWING BY BARRY DRISCOLL

•JUNIOR *DULCIBEL"

second fiddle to a seal!

Black S

to get through Baa-baa

Boy withcul

Sheep and Danny

a break, and was beginning to his home outside

learn Where My Caravan Has Rested.

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in

the parents.

"The women I am to marry obedient and good I will grow? to love her. In India we belleve that if a marriage does not beg with great passion then it can not end with great hatred "We shall be content."

He dropped me off at the hotel and I gave him the extra- five rupees, as he knew I would. Then I went in to packs my, bags,

Now I'm off to Bangkuk

London Express Service.

centre The caravan had ap parently got loose from its moor- ings and was rushing towards a head-on collision.

There was a loud crash as the xylophone fell to the floor, pushed off by Lora's exuberant playing. The audience rose to its feet.

After a short pause in which to recover their breath, people uttered more fulsome exclama- tiona of delight; "Marvellous, Isn't she?"

The melodeon player got up He did not appear too happy at having to follow such a popular performer began to realise Why professional actora SO heartily dislike children and enimals taking part in a play, when they are around nobody else gets a look in,

His misgivings proved to be CUITECT He failed as lament- ably-to-make an impression in competition with the loudly singing Lora as had the first performer.

With

*:

great good humour he walked back to his seat defeated and Lora again took the plar- form this time

to mouth organ.

play

After supper I made up my mind to take things in hand little

For my part. I very much wanted

to hear the melodeon..... player in action. but if the the evening

of Aberdeen, Uncle, as the first artist took her being stage-managed by others. second half where local talent used to per- place at the far end of the room, She was lifted bodily on to the followed the trend of the first She also began to pester me form. Uncle Andrew became that I should shut Lera into his top of the piano by two stalwart that pleasure seemed unlikely to for my mouth organ, but found obsessed with the idea that Lore study until it was her turn to males so that the audience would be fulfilled. to her annoyance that it emitted should be a guest

He arrived perform.

110

sound in spite of being one evening in his ghawed with vigour.

brake to

collect her and me.

She gave a loud sigh of des- We set off early the following peration. This produced a blast morning I had packed twp

Veto

managed

to sing a

get a good view of her, and the xylophone was placed before her. I stood by her side, ready to polat to the notes, in case she should be overcome by a sudden

Wails

While the rest were busy eat- nveigle Lora into Uncle

The study most unfortunately

blowing and sucking feebly; in a to enjoy the ride of the ceilidh any bid Hebritten few noter or on Bag-ban Black Sheep. The the music started her plexus1

1 had left her.

visiting us sent her a toy trun A well-known s singer of mouth chorus would not have been able now?". pet. Lora soon learnt to render music (unaccompanied singing) to compete with that, and the

and

of noise from the mouth organ suitcases, one ontaining my But he and several of the fit of nerves at the sight of so me and talking I managed to and galvenised Lora to fresh belongings, the other Lora's guests veloed this suggestion at large an audience and momen Andrew's study and close the efforts I set off for a walk. Instruments, and her mackintosh once. She must stay.

tarily forget her plece. When I returned in about an The brake bounced over the The singer smiled charmingly. My presence proved unneces- door on her. hour Lura had learnt the blow track, but Lora took the bumps and started off with the assur Bary. She took the beater from suck method and there she was, and jolt's calmly and appeared ance of a professional. She me and started off with aplomb Wes not soundproof and, when state of almost complete on the

air before the audience strained forward. Walls at being excluded from exhaustion, for she had been I led her inting

Things

"drew?" the the drawing-routs inevitable happened: Lore rained calight murmurs of "Yes, I re- the doing this apparently, ever since where it was to be held bly ber head and fored her way cognised that bit."

of the guests Dome- feelings about the forthcoming from deep bass to a seal top

incredible.

glong at once to let her A young friend of mine, after proceedings were dublous Ch Even a full Covent Garden isn't she playing Danny Boya hal attempt to

**Quite

keep No. I'm sure she m't. ent-spliting blasts on this when was comirky and had consented singer wisely gave up there and perhens the tight bend told her severely to be quiet it was held for her to start the evening with a song, then

The audience were hysterical Anal slither of the beater along Another admirer sent her a malodeon player was to fake

KARANG Ae van Loud applause greeted the asistive free flowing ter small xylophone complete with the platform next followed by with laughter, They had not the length of the Instrument dusts and the patch Bidin beater she would holds the Lora elving an exhibition of heard anything as good as that which denoted the end of Danny immediately below the eyes beater In Her front teelle rides lophone playing. That war to for a long while her

Makaryad Boy and was followed by bang пру noto fo

comprise the mist half of the When a certain amonitor vociferolie calis for an encore, bodily ristorov

with Tristratich at th pointed

had been restored someone Ostry on d Undle, beat belt awed to as per ller set-ikposed practising there would be a break for suggested til Lasa be allowed any in

pouring down har there various Instruments throyal supper. During the second half, to perform arat and the human thought, the front row, pop with un almost to distraction at times, ansonges other extractions. Lora faction Inter that she would fat sisting of the other prospective It became necessary to put them warto ang to pay plano her lite act off her chest and performers looked a bine dissing in which I need tardly

The evening finished with out of her reach and allow zer

kubra started to arrays, "It was blatantly: oppurent

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order I made her sit by my side. The result

no legs

Scals

W

t

[to play them, only for short Bo fer good, for willing to listen to others courred at the way tilaga: were, hay, Lora olkmans the rest of us.

1 announced Where ya taas mured by Uncle

periods in te vender Lus, the wood

At undle of solder went to hold, troverted vorentoerted decisiver, busty that he got on to a spaced and

ked to pha was out of my ? kind whicing notes left viYLE