CONTENTS. 



economy theories — A fossil State — Arrival at Kotah — The town, 

 the Residency, and the Maharaja's palace — Bagging an alligator 

 — Oriental poetry and a contrast — A tragic story — A sambhur 

 drive — Colonel Wyllie's camp —The Maharaja of Kotah . . 273 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Shooting with the Maharaja — A curious shot — Boondi palace' — The 

 Raja's own room — The Raja's camp — At Deoli — The ayah is 

 robbed — A mongoose story — Spearing crocodiles — By "shigram" 

 to Nusserabad — Chittore, the " invincible city" — The Tower of 

 Victory — Oodeypore — Colonel Miles — The Residency — The 

 Oodeypore princes — Descendants of the Sun — The present 

 Maharaja — In the old palace — The armoury — The new palace 

 — A lovely scene ......... 297 



CHAPTER XV. 



Pig-sticking with the Maharaja — The clannishness of the Rajpoots 

 — A story of an Oodeypore prince — Struggles for precedence — 

 A visit to the jail — Afternoon tea with General Nixon — His 

 daughter's native dresses — The Maharaja's farewell dinner to 

 us — Salvationists in India — Ajmere — En route for Jodhpore — 

 A station made out of an old tomb — Sir Pertab Singh — 

 Jodhpore — Pig-sticking with Major Beatson — The Maharaja's 

 zenana — The old palace — Some splendid jewels — A fetish — The 

 Raja's silver bed — A Jodhpore nautch — Sons of the Moon — 

 Pig-sticking with the Archduke of Austria — Calling back a 

 train ........... 316 



CHAPTER XV L 



Arrival at Baroda — With Colonel Biddulph at the Residency — The 

 late Guicowar's crime — Baroda sights — A cosmopolitan style of 

 architecture — Quaint effect — With Lord Harris at Bombay — A 

 charming place — Homeward-bound — M. le Capitaine and the 

 Creeks — The "Barndoor Polka" — The ship's engines break 

 down — Arrival at Aden Colonial Britishers -Marseilles — 

 Calais — And home ......... 330 



