CHAPTER III 



IMPRESSIONS OF NORTHERN INDIA: BOMBAY, 

 JAIPORE, AMBER, AGRA 



HEN we started on our trip around the 

 world we had had no intention of doing 

 much stereotyped sight-seeing, simply 

 because the wilds and a gun had ap- 

 pealed to us much more strongly than the beaten 

 track of tourists and a guide-book. But now the 

 fever had put me out of action, so far as shooting 

 trips were concerned, for several months at least, 

 and it seemed that I could not better improve this 

 period of convalescence than by jogging across 

 Northern India and visiting some of her more fa- 

 mous cities. Accordingly, on reaching Ceylon after 

 the Malay trip, I went ashore only long enough to 

 rebook my passage to Bombay, and continued up 

 the coast on the P. & O. S. S. Massilia, which had 

 brought me from Singapore. The journey across 

 India was a thoroughly pleasant one, and notwith- 

 standing the numberless times it has been written 

 up before, I am tempted to jot down a few of the 

 purely personal impressions received in that fasci- 



