Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — The Cantonment in India. [ARTICLE]

The Cantonment in India.

The cantonment of an Indian town means the place where the English live. The native town is usually enclosed by high walls and accessible only by a saw gates; it is brimful of people who crowd its baxaars or shop streets. Quito outside the town and a mile or two away is the cantonment, an unwalled district, where each house standa in ita own incloaure or compound, and where the regiments, British or native, are quartered In "lines" or rows of huts. The oantonment usually has wide, well-kept roads, with a grassy margin and avenues of fine trees, giving it the appearance of a great park. The English visitor, if he stays with friends, might be a week without seeing the native town at all, unlesa his curiosity prompted an excursion in search of it. There is always in the cantonment a olub, with a ladies’ wing (unless the ladies have a gymkhana or club of their own), and besides the various parade grounds, a polo ground or tennis court, so that a visitor bent only on amusement has plenty of resources.— [Nineteenth Century.