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eentienien. Five towers. One 300 years old—the first built
—and small.
An adult funeral passed along, the bearers roped to-
gether with white, the mourners following, then the dog.
Later a child.
Row of vultures fringed the top of the lower wall.
When the iron gate was opened and the corpse carried in,
Clara and Smythe had a glimpse through the distant iron
door of the vultures flying down in.
On top of a tall cocoa shaft (topless) stood a vulture—
looked like an intentional ornament.
I was not feeling well and thought something must be
the matter with my liver. I consulted a physician—a
highly celebrated man with a quaint English all his own.
"It is not that your liver were in disorder, but some of
your other guts."
Then he continued—"In this country I would that one
shall take care not of one gut alone but of all his guts,
including the heart. Let him do this and he shall not be
conscious ever that he ails—which is to say he shall never
think to show that he has any guts at all."
Two interesting hours with Prince Kumar Shri of
Pulitana, and his young son and little daughter,—along
with Merriweather. The others saw the Rani, his wife—
she never goes out of the house, of course. She is a fluent
speaker of English.
Jan. 31, Baroda: Lectured in the great hall of the palace
where the Durbars are held. The Gaikwar Resident, and
200 guests, 4:30 P.M. (Great King.)
Saw the elephants etc., but failed—quite unnecessarily
—to get to the Jewel House five minutes distant. It is
claimed here that no monarch in the world can match this
mass of magnificence.
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