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EUROPEAN FEMALES IN INDIA.
TUB Bombay Gazette Baya:-Tho CUBO of tho two young
womon, Aroolin Couth ona Cm olino Hand, who soom
to hmo boen suddenly arousod to tho importauvo of
tho atop (hoy hndtnkoniu allying thomsolvos with
tho two Mnhomodnn iwiiol drivoia, Mo.bhan nnd
Jumma Khan, piosonts a view of modo>n English
j lifo amonte tho lowor elnssou whhh is not without
intoi cat. Both ofthowomou appear to havo gono to
I Australia about tho samo timo, nnd to haro hoon in
Kerri o theo when thoy mot tho two Mnhoniadnns.
J Noithar of thom oould thorofoto havo boon in wtint ¡
thoy soom to havo boon simply allured by tba display
of woalth that tho .Mnhomodnnaappourod in their oyes
to poesoss. Tho want ot eduontion that tho gilla
hnvo shown ia voiy clearly doinonstiatod in tho rondl
ncBa with which they wont through n mm riniio co o*
mouy wh rh, it might bo p osumed, tho moat 111.
informed English gill would nt onco know was only a
far.o. Both ot tho womon oamo hom Cornwall; but
though among Cornish mino, s iimoraneo may bo ox.
pocted to be found, yot fow Englishinon would bo
pioparod to bollovo thnt two Englishwomen, ono
twenty-two nnd tho other twonty.four years of ago,
would bo ii ady to do na thoao two did. Thoy bollovod
thomsolvos to bo innrriod to thoao two Mabomodans,
booauso thoy each possessed a oortifl.nto signod by
soma po son who profcsBod hinisolf to bo a Oh latina
minister, and who probably porformod tho (hielen!
proceeding of inn ryiug thom in some ont.of-tho-wny
pla.u wore no honoat oyoa woro liholy to intrude.
From tho account that tho womon havo tho nsolvos
giron of tho connection with thoao mon thoro omi be
no doubt that Morbhnn and Jumma Khan bribod soma
baso follow in Adolnldo to persuado thoseinnornnt
womon that by uoing through the ooroinony ho
htiiisolf oonoootod thu)' would boioino their wives ;
nnd nftor sum noding ao fm it was onay to load thom
to bollovo that thoy woro doini to rosido within
Iiritiah territory in ludia, und so they wore indui ed
to toavo Australia, and donbtloss thou rut that in India
thoy would bo na ni-und ladioB aa duelussos aro io
Eng and. Thoy hnvo boon Bavod, howotor, ut tho
last uiuinant tiom tho flito that would coi talniy havo
mot thom hat! thoy onco arosaod tho hoi dois and
passad tho hills into Canduhar, willah appeals to havo
boon tho loi'ollty tlostinod to roi elvo thom. Tho two
womua wo o thrown upon tho world, ono nt ibm toon
and tho other at /Iltoon years of ago, mid by somo
moana at that ago omlgratod to Australia, and during
tho aaron yoais thoy lind boon thoro thoy soom to
havo noa1 ly lost trace ofthoir parents and Monda
in England ; thoy hud no ano to consult or adi lao
thom, and apparently onoh ono insplrod.ths othor
with aourago to tnko thu lonp in tho untie, lu nllying
thoinBolvoB with two MnhomodnnB, tho conBoquoncos
ol whluh thoy obtained somo slight knowledge of
whon thoy got to Kari nehoe.
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