Alfred de Tavares wrote:
However, what Peter probably refers to is the "gaddi",
the "boilanchi-gaddi":
It was a quaint wooden box on "gaddo" wheels and pulled
by a pair of oxen.
Garishly painted, with tiny windows and entrance from the rear,
it was very convenient "sossegado" mode of travel, but
exclusively, within Bardez.
Nowhere else, in Goa, was it known.
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Alfred,
Correct my mistake if so dear fellow. Perchance my memories betray. Didn't
our dear chappie Victor Rangel print a bunch of little stories? "Loving
Ayesha" or was it not? Indeed that be it. Wasn't the very first story set
in an exquisite 'boilanchi-gaddi' of yonder times? A very interesting story
I might add but can't offhand recall the name. Victor dears, jog our memory
will you. And how is our lovely Maria keeping? Saligao springs to mind so
often.
Cecil de P.
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