ADVENTURES WITH A CAMERA IN MANY LANDS 



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TWO YOUNG BOMBATH^RS OX THE BEACH 



Between the Fort and Malabar Hill, at Bombay, there is a long line of beach which is 

 very popular with the natives. There are no bath-houses, but each bather brings an extra 

 costume. One serves as a screen behind which the dressing or undressing is carried on. 

 The wet garment's, after the bath, are dropped to the sand within the protecting circle of the 

 clean garments, which are then donned, and a few sweeps of the wet sari against the hot air 

 serve to dry it thoroughly. 



while it is dangerous to take pictures of 

 some of the women of harem or purdah, 

 whether they are veiled or not. 



In Cairo a Moslem woman with most 

 hypnotic eyes was dictating a letter to a 

 professional letter-writer. She sat per- 

 fectly still and looked straight into the 

 camera when I asked her in sign language 

 if I might take her picture. Obviously 

 she was a person to whom I could not 

 offer money, but I thought that such a 



woman would like to have a copy of the 

 picture sent to her. The letter- writer, it 

 developed, spoke English, and I was so 

 grateful to this fair Egyptian for this 

 unusual opportunity that I asked him to 

 tell her that if she would give her address 

 I would send her a print. 



"If her husband know she let you take 

 picture, he beat her," replied the scribe 

 after a hurried consultation. 



But out at the Pyramids two women 



