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was eighty or ninety miles from Caleutta, and I do 
not believe that there was a doctor nearer than here. 
I have had plenty of time to collect a good lot of 
insects, small reptiles, ete., and enjoyed very much 
indeed this opportunity to observe the bird life of the 
region very comfortably and at close quarters. The 
country is a very wild one and simply teems with 
life. I think perhaps the big adjutant storks were 
the most amusing to watch of any. 
Well, enough said. I will close this letter with 
best love to all, from 
Your son, 
Tom. 
101, Garden Reach, 
Caleutta, December 10, 1906. 
Dear Father and Mother : 
If I mistake not the last time I wrote to you it 
was from Agra. How we have chased about since ! 
I probably wrote that we had driven out to Kutab 
Minar from Delhi. Our Delhi pictures have been 
developed and are very fine, the best we have ever 
taken and this is very satisfactory. Our pictures of 
the Taj are also good. From Agra we took train for 
about fourteen hours to Lucknow, famous for its mem- 
ories of the siege in the great mutiny of 1857. Luck- 
now, excepting for its beautiful scenery, is not very 
interesting. There are a great many English here 
and the compounds of these English people are very 
pretty. 
On our return from a trip to the Residency ruins 
a snake charmer paid us a call at the hotel and did 
some very wonderful tricks. We induced him to teach 
us a few which we shall produce for your edification 
