68 A COLLECTING TRIP cs 
made a very good seore at 100 yards at a range 
near here a couple of days ago; several English offi- 
cers, ete., 4 shots each. I got two bullseyes (5 each) 
and two 4s, winning. I was quite tickled. I have 
written all about where we have been and what we 
have done to the family and you can get that all 
from them. Nothing very exciting except a cobra 
hunt and I got some fine pictures! just developed. 
The cameras are working wonderfully now and I 
will have some prize pictures to show you all. But 
I am almost out of films and ean get none to fit here. 
I think I will get another cheap English-make eamera 
so I can get films more easily. 
Lots of love to you from us both. 
Your affectionate brother. 
Tom. 
Caleutta, November, 1906. 
Dear Rob: 
How often Rosamond and I have wished you 
could be out here to see this funny country. To an 
engineer like yourself everything would be very 
interesting, because it is so very primitive. Steamers 
are coaled by hundreds of eoolies, each carrying per- 
haps ten pounds in a little basket on his head. There 
are no drays for carrying eargoes from and to steam- 
ers, only wonderfully slow bullock carts. If a street 
is to be dug up every little bit of dirt is lifted out 
in handfulls. They have no shovels here, only a 
sort of heavy hoe. In this very good house, i. e. for 
Caleutta, all the cooking is done on a row of little 
charcoal fires in big earthen pots standing about 
the floor. The servants squat about and wash the 
