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himself afraid to return to his musical duties, so he is to 

 be kept here until they return him to Calcutta. 



Thursday we devoted to exploring the old palace and 

 city, which, now deserted, is distant some miles from the 

 modern town. We also went to see an ancient " tye- 

 khana." This is an underground house, or more strictly 

 a series of rooms, built below the earth, to get a little relief 

 from the intense summer heat. Imagine a very large and 



OLD GATE AND GARDEN', DHOLPUE. 



deep masonry well, down which you descend by nights 

 of stone steps. At some distance below the surface are 

 rooms dug in the ground, with no openings except the 

 doorways, on the staircase of the well. One room is only 

 just above the level of the water at the bottom. 



Alan went out nearly every day pig-sticking with the 

 Raja, but it is too early yet for this sport. The old boars 

 lie secluded by themselves apart from the sounders, and 

 are difficult to find. One day they brought me a young 

 black buck, which they had ridden after until it was so tired 



