They use black tablets for the children in the schools, and write upon them along the long side, not the broad
side, writing with a white material from the left to the right. One would think that the author of the following verses had meant the Hindus : — “How many a writer uses paper as black as charcoal,
Whilst his pen writes on it with white color. By writing he places a bright day in a dark night, weaving like a weaver, but without adding a woof.”

Tell the “experts on the history of the chalkboard” to check their facts.