As I sat on the verandah of the Hotel the other morning, gazing on the broad expanse of Ocean and wiping the perspiration which trickled from my lofty brow, (the thermometer marked 90 degrees,) I could not help recalling the beautifully appropriate lines of the celebrated bard: "When the sun's perpendicular rays Begin to illumine the Sea, The fishies exclaim in amaze 'Confound it!

The bottom of this tent was only ten feet from the side of the house, which gave it greater security than if it had been more horizontal, while it made a species of verandah in which exercise could be taken with greater freedom than in the rooms.

When the evening prayer is over and the first meal has been taken, the coffee-shops are filled with smokers, the verandahs with men playing 'chausar' or drafts, while the air is filled with the cries of iced drink sellers and of beggars longing to break their fast also.

We have chota-hazri in the verandah at 7.30, and at that early hour it is so cold my blue fingers will hardly lift the cup.

We were sitting on the verandah after supper, and were well into our second pipes.

Now the chokra swears he saw it go up the verandah into a bedroom.

"The room is on the ground floor, and outside one of the windows a flight of steps leads down from the verandah to the ground.

Everything was done to strengthen the building in all its parts that the ingenuity of seamen could suggest; and particularly to prevent the tent-verandah from caving in.

Now we follow the shady verandah around three sides of the attractive courtyard with its trees and flowering creepers.

It contains many palaces; but these have not the same beautiful gateways, colonnades, and verandahs as those already described.

In the verandah near the steps sat the bungalow chowkidar (watchman).

It has a queer open gallery or stone verandah along the street front.

But when the middle of the day draws near, the slaves run to the cool groves that lie along the verandahs on the northern side of the palace, forsaking the sun, and as the heat overcomes the genius of the musicians, one by one their hands fall from their instruments, till at last all melody ceases.

Across a landing whose timbers had been scuffed shiny by the passage of tired footwear, then down a verandah over which hung tattered pieces of plastic in an ugly and half-hearted attempt to keep out the rain.

Here in Yokohama the Overseas Club has two mails and four sets of papersEnglish, French, German, and American, as suits the variety of its constitutionand the verandah by the sea, where the big telescope stands, is a perpetual feast of the Pentecost.

The second constable indeed admitted that I had offered them a letter to the magistrate, and had not moved out of the verandah during the colloquy.