TRAVELLING BY EKKA. —Throughout India the ekka is the ordinary vehicle in which thi natives travel, and until recent times, teas in many places the only one available for Europeans, Two or four-wheeled, and drawn by bullocks, they are springless, uncomfortable carts in which the traveller sits where and how he can. The ekka in the photograph, with its tasselled canopy, is much more elaborate than the common variety.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 28 January 1939, Page 7
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69TRAVELLING BY EKKA.—Throughout India the ekka is the ordinary vehicle in which thi natives travel, and until recent times, teas in many places the only one available for Europeans, Two or four-wheeled, and drawn by bullocks, they are springless, uncomfortable carts in which the traveller sits where and how he can. The ekka in the photograph, with its tasselled canopy, is much more elaborate than the common variety. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 28 January 1939, Page 7
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