WILD LIFE ACROSS THE WORLD 



impressive, in spite of those ridiculous flowers, of 

 which I rid myself as soon as possible. 



I was fortunate in securing some very fine pictures 

 of the temple and of the life around its gates. At 

 night I came back again, as my guide told me that the 

 " Gate of Fire " was well worth seeing. He certainly 

 did not mislead me on that point. First we came to 

 the sacred bull, a magnificent piece of carved granite, 

 and some twenty yards beyond that we saw what 

 appeared to be flames darting out all round a huge 

 gateway. Worshippers were tramping in endless 

 procession round and round the bull. I was told this 

 goes on continuously night and day. Whilst I was 

 standing in the shadow of one of the goporams, watching 

 them, I saw several people drop from sheer exhaustion. 



In the temple itself I bought some extremely good 

 brass work, chiefly of natural history subjects. 



From Madura I went on to Madras, the " City of 

 Magnificent Distances," hottest, most dusty, and least 

 interesting of all the great Indian towns. No visitor 

 would remain in Madras if he could help doing so ; 

 but I had a good deal of developing which could not 

 wait, and I also wished to lay in a store of material — 

 printing papers, chemicals, and so on. 



I had a letter of introduction to the late Maharajah 

 of Mysore, who invited me to take moving pictures 

 in his territory, and I was now promised that the 

 resources of the Government would be placed at my 



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