46 A COLLECTING TRIP 
making up berths at night, waiting at table, general 
guide, ete. [I have him do all the feeing when we go 
out and he gets things done for about one-fourth of 
what we could. He is good to send out to the bazar 
to buy little souvenirs for us. For next to nothing he 
obtained for Rosamond a gold nose ring, a nice little 
one just like the native women wear. So far we have 
had little chance to collect, excepting a few nice 
things which flew into our rooms and the ears. 
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I do hope we shall have good photographs; some 
are already done and they are fine. When we arrive 
at Caleutta we shall have some printed and send them 
to you. Those taken at Port Said and in the canal are 
very good. We also have some good ones of Aden and 
a few which we had done in Bombay are good, but 
most of those we took in Bombay have not been 
developed as yet. 
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Dinner is ready and I must run. So good bye; 
love to all. 
Tom. 
Kaiser-i-Hind—Family Hotel. 
Jaipur, Rajputana, November 7, 1906. 
This is to acknowledge the steamer letters — posi- 
tively the first chance I have had. The trip has been 
ideal. India — well, there is no adjective to express 
it. At Bombay we saw all the sights, the Parsi Towers 
of Silence, where the Parsis place their dead and 
flocks of vultures eat them up; it was rather shocking 
