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escorted to camp. An official camp is a wonderful 

 organisation. It consists of a double supply of tents, 

 camels, wagons, etc., so that when one camp station is 

 left there is another fully equipped to arrive at ; and the 

 one just left is rapidly dismantled and conveyed to the 

 stopping place next again on the route. 



The camp is a village in itself, containing government 

 office tents (even a post office), accommodation for the 

 staff, the residence of the Lieutenant-Governor, with 

 great state reception rooms and quarters for guests. 

 These visitors' tents contain sitting-rooms as well as 

 dressing-rooms and bed-rooms, and are fully furnished, 

 though naturally the furniture is of the light kind. 

 The whole thing is on a scale difficult to imagine. Some- 

 thing like seven hundred camels were employed to 

 remove the camps from place to place. Two nights 

 were spent in camp, and Ramsay had a morning's duck- 

 shooting, to the scene of which he went on a camel. 

 There were also strange little desert villages to be 

 visited, so that a few days' stay would have been a 

 most welcome rest and a great pleasure. Time, however, 

 would not stand still, and with much regret they took 

 leave of their kind hosts, were driven once again along 

 the new road, and took the train back to Delhi, whence 

 they started on their return journey. By this time 

 Ramsay had made up his mind to advise that Bangalore 

 should be the site for the Institute, and he felt that he 

 should get back to Bombay as quickly as possible to 

 go into details connected with the future organisation 



