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Title: A glimpse of India : being a collection of extracts from the letters Dr. Clara A. Swain, first medical missionary to India of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Swain, Clara A., 1834-1910
Subjects: Methodist Episcopal Church Personal Narratives Physicians
Publisher: New York : James Pott & Co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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illings apiece for each passenger and a certainrate a ton for the cargo, and this steamers paymentwill amount to six or seven thousand dollars. The sail through the canal has been very pleasantso far. I noticed some improvements along the lineof the railway. The fresh water canal recently builtby the Khedive from the Nile to Suez will prove agreat blessing. The green fields that we see in thedistance and the little houses which, though rude,look comfortable, add to the scene and the mustardfields which are now in blossom enrich the landscape.We have just been on deck to get a view of the First (336) Last Days Bitter Lake, through which we move faster as thereare no near shores to wash away as in the canal.With my field-glass I get a fine view. I have neverenjoyed a sail through the canal so much before.The sun is hot but there is a cool breeze which makesit very pleasant. We shall soon reach Port Said andthere we shall take a steamer for Joppa. ( 337) Part III Return to Indiaiqo6-iqo8
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Dr. C. A. Swain, 1906. XXIV Return to India Bareilly, Jan. 2, 190J.My dear Dr. Mary : We sailed from New York on the 6th ofNovember and after a few days rest once more leftLiverpool for the land of the Hindus. After apleasant voyage we landed in Bombay on the morningof December 20th and I went direct to Delhiwhere I spent some days of quiet rest, then I went toMoradabad to spend Christmas arriving there onChristmas eve in time to join a dinner party oftwenty-four at Mrs. Parkers, including my old friends,Dr. and Mrs. Waugh, and several Americans whoarrived in the country before we did. On the twenty-seventh we all came to Bareilly,dear old Bareilly ! where so many years of my lifewere spent. Great changes have taken place here.I see new faces instead of old friends. The treeswhich I planted have become immense, especiallythose which belong to the banyan family. Themango grove which we planted twenty-two years agois now in its glory and the fruit must bring a goodincome for the dispens

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