NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
at varying qualities of whiteness that are in pearls, 
moonstones, and clouds in a newly clear sky.’’ 
PICTURE to yourself an interminable railway jour- 
ney—hot—across dreary, glaring, dusty plains; 
at last the arrival at a station,—crowded as always 
with brilliantly dressed apathetic natives,—amid not 
thousands but tens of thousands of flies. This 1s not 
Udaipur—only the station of Udaipur, for the 
Maharana is thoroughly conservative and will not let 
the trains enter the city. 
After a drive dustier 
than even the railroad jour- 
ney, the hotel is reached, a 
gray oblong building on a 
bare sunbaked hill. But this 
is not Udaipur either. 
It is Udaipur only after 
you enter the Delhi Gate— 
into a city of dazzling white- 
ness—with streets thronged 
with costumes each more bril- 
liant than the last. But the 
treasure of Udaipur is a huge © 
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AND REMINDER 
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Udaipur— 
A City of Dazzling Whiteness 
by USC. 4A: 
(Photos by the Author) 
jewel—blue as are the’ sapphires from the 
‘Cashmir—worn in the very heart of the city— 
aud this jewel is the lake. From the lake, en- 
closed by gleaming white ghats and palaces, all 
the outer world of dust and discomfort and 
sordidness—-fades into utter oblivion. As if 
after drinking of the Waters of Lethe, the only 
‘‘The southern island is named 
the Jagmandar.’’ 
things that seem to matter are 
the dreaminess and_ beauty 
and poetry of the lake, with 
its protecting girdle of glow- 
ing marble. 
Udaipur is the capital of 
the State of Mewar founded 
by Maharana Udai Singh be- 
fore 1568 A. D. The present 
reigning family is known as 
the Sesodia or Sun-stock 
‘¢..,..+.the dreaminess and beauty and poetry of the lake, with its protecting girdle of white marble,’’ 
