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India has nearly twenty thousand miles of railroads open and in use, and thousands more in process of construction. As in England, they are invariably called "railways. " They do not have baggage, but it is "luggage; " a baggage-car is unknown, for they call it a "van; " and the conductor is the "guard. " Our travellers had become accustomed to these terms, and many others, in England, and now used them very familiarly.
Early rising is hardly a virtue in India; for he who sleeps after six in the morning loses the best part of the day, especially in the hot season. The tourists were up before this hour, and had coffee wherever they were. They had been treated with the utmost kindness and consideration, and their hosts could not do enough for them. They were conveyed to the railway station by them, and there found his lordship with a plan of a number of carriages -- they are not cars there. On this plan he had placed, with the assistance of the commander, the names of the entire party.