India Impressions, With some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7. by Walter Crane

Author:Walter Crane [Crane, Walter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781355465379
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Goodreads: 30702763
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Published: 2016-05-04T18:32:18+00:00

DELHI DRIVING. WANTED—A RULE OF THE ROAD

At the hotel, where the custom of small, separate, circular dining-tables obtained, we happened to meet a very agreeable Anglo-American family from Ceylon, who were travelling in India, and were returning to their home at Colombo, before visiting Japan and Europe. We discovered we had several friends in common, and promised to visit them when we came to Ceylon.

I got a coloured drawing of the Jama Musjid from the plain before mentioned, where a few trees afforded a little shade, the sun being very strong, although a cool wind was still blowing from the east. The light was particularly clear and the shadows sharp, so that the architecture looked remarkably distinct, the effect being almost hard.

We had a stroll in the park-like grounds near the Club. There was an old and much overgrown Mogul archway here, which had been considerably battered in the siege. There were fine cypresses and other trees, and among them little flights of green parroquets flew with their shrill scream—their flight and their notes reminding one of our swifts. Toucans were also to be seen, and of course the palm squirrels. We watched a whole colony of them sleeping in the hollow of a fine old banyan tree.

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