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PICTURESQUE NATIVES
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low platform as the Indian plains-people. A little more discrimination might show them that the much despised "niggers" are not really "so black as they are painted". They are not Indian at all, but despite their want of civilization, some are found to show more manly and generous instincts than many of those who despise them.
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A TIBETAN.
On Sunday morning, the villagers from the hillsides, for many miles around, troop here in their thousands to do their week's marketing, decked in all their finery. The women and children are especially picturesque, dressed in all the colours of the rainbow, and laden with massive gold
