Calcutta Coolies

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lette CALCUTTA. COQUES EV STATE JENTE BR

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NATIVE LIFE-INDIA. Series II. LIOS ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING & QUEEN. SERIE QUI 4.00 By Appointment ARTISTIC Calcutta Coolies. The Coolies of Calcutta, otherwise porters or carriers, are men of fine physique, and are able to carry exceptionally heavy weights supported on their heads. Coolie labourers form an enormous body of men in the East, no less than 70,000 journeying yearly from India to Ceylon. The word Coolie is derived from the Hindu- stani, Kuli-a labourer. They sometimes wash !! Still, they fine strong. mew and live of. five of them think nothing of carrying agrand piano huge side- board on their heads. Their carriage is splendid - the women labourers are juist the same. The latter will. carry thito !! ca car a basket full Printed in and heado and a child on one