Goa, and the Blue Mountains - Or, Six Months of Sick Leave #229472

What a glad moment it is, to be sure, when the sick and seedy, the tired and testy invalid from pestiferous Scinde or pestilential Guzerat, "leaves all behind him" and scrambles over the sides of his Pattimar.<br><br>His what?<br><br>Ah! we forget. The gondola and barque are household words in your English ears, the budge-row is beginning to own an old familiar sound, but you are right - the "Pattimar" requires a definition.