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and ivory, beautifully inlaid. The bath rooms are at 
the end of a long marble Hall and are of pale yel- 
low marble. The dressing rooms glow with gilt and 
exquisite inlaid work. They look upon a lake below 
and beyond to the city through arches of carved 
alabaster and clusters of beautifully graceful col- 
umns. The private temple is white carved marble 
and it is still in use; for a goat is sacrificed at the 
altar every day. In the afternoon we went to a 
school of art where they were hammering silver and 
making brass work. The natives are certainly born 
artists; they copy perfectly, but cannot originate de- 
signs. It is very curious to see a Hindu shrine, not 
more than five feet by five, right out in the middle 
of the street and people praying to the most shock- 
ing looking gods. We remained in Jaipur only two 
days and then took a night train to Delhi. It is a 
very interesting town, although for native life noth- 
ing compared with Jaipur; the old palace at Delhi 
was far and away handsomer than the one at Amber. 
The latter is a building of typical Mohammedan ar- 
chitecture, of white marble; with the inside inlaid 
with precious and semi-precious stones. The royal 
rooms are very beautiful; the bath rooms are large 
and of great variety, a Turkish bath, rose water bath, 
hot and cold bath, ete.; they are very elaborate in- 
design and inlaid with precious stones and gilt. Op- 
posite to this is the Pearl Mosque, made of gray and 
white marble, exquisitely beautiful, with a door of 
heavily embossed silver. We then went to an ivory 
shop and such stunning things we saw! I bought 
a beautiful card case, for really next to nothing con- 
sidering the work; it is all open work carving on 
