IN CAMP. 



bees are. If likely to be troublesome, 

 Imam will arrange for their destruction 

 before the caves are visited. " 



"Apart, however, from the danger to 

 those visiting what Murray describes as 

 41 the most extraordinary sight that India 

 has to show, " there is another fact I 

 would like to bring forward, namely, that 

 the bees are one of the chief causes of 

 damage to the famous wall paintings in 

 the caves. In Messrs. Ferguson and 

 Burgess's book on the Cave Temples of 

 India it is stated that "forty years ago 

 (i.e.) about 1839) the paintings at Ajanta 

 were very tolerably complete and their 

 colours exhibited a freshness which was 

 wonderful, considering their exposure 

 to the vicissitudes of an Indian climate 

 for from 15 to 18 centuries. Since that 

 time, however, bees, bats and barbarians 

 have done a great deal to obliterate what 

 was then so nearly perfect. " 



" As the State protection of the remains 

 of ancient India is now about to pass into 



