52 SPORT AND TRAVEL 



William Thomas Fee, formerly American consul- 

 general in Bombay, I wish here to express my grati- 

 tude to him for his most kindly interest in my wel- 

 fare during those unpleasant weeks, and to thank 

 him most heartily for having on his own initiative 

 looked up and interested himself in a temporarily 

 helpless American citizen. 



When, on December 25, after a solitary bowl of 

 soup for a Christmas dinner, I had gathered 

 strength enough to take the express for the north, 

 and two days later descended at Jaipore, the prin- 

 cipal city of Rajputana, I found myself at last in 

 true Indian surroundings, and began to realize the 

 fascination of that most fascinating of all countries. 



Let no one labor under the delusion that India is 

 always hot. On the morning of my arrival in Jaipore 

 I should have been mightily glad of a fur coat. 

 Moreover, Indian trains have a way of invariably 

 arriving at important places at hours in keeping 

 with the paganism of the country. The train 

 reached Jaipore before sunrise of a bitter cold 

 December day, and so frozen was I by the time I 

 reached the hotel, that it was necessary to devote 

 the hours between chota-hazri and breakfast to sit- 

 ting close to an open fire before I was sufficiently 

 thawed out to be capable of walking. Then, when 

 the sun was well up, we started out to see the city. 



