India impressions, with some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7 [microform] . of Umballa, which wereached in the early morning. The country waswrapped in a thick white mist before the sunrose, when it gradually cleared. Beyond Umballathe country was very Mat, the dry lands varied withgreen crops and yellow with charlock, as before,and dotted with acacia trees. Occasionally wecrossed wide rivers, or river beds, and the usualflocks of white cranes and brown kites were was another junction where our trainstopped. It looked an interesting place from therailway, a walled t
India impressions, with some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7 [microform] . of Umballa, which wereached in the early morning. The country waswrapped in a thick white mist before the sunrose, when it gradually cleared. Beyond Umballathe country was very Mat, the dry lands varied withgreen crops and yellow with charlock, as before,and dotted with acacia trees. Occasionally wecrossed wide rivers, or river beds, and the usualflocks of white cranes and brown kites were was another junction where our trainstopped. It looked an interesting place from therailway, a walled town with towers and ancientmosques. After leaving Pillour (the refreshmentstation) a very broad river was crossed, and on thewide sands of the dry part of its bed, almost like adesert, we saw a train of thirty camels movingslowly in single file. l62 INDIA IMPRESSIONS We did not reach Amritzar until about i ,more than three hours after time! On emergingfrom the station, despite our bearer, we were nearly-torn to pieces by hotel touts. The Alexandra hotel had been named to us and. SHE WONT BE HAPPY TILL SHE GETS EVERYTHING PACKED UP we asked for its representative, but it appeared therewas no such hotel at Amritzar. Each rival toutclamoured for our custom, declaring that the hotelhe represented was the true and only successor tothe mythical Alexandra* One went so far as to * We learned afterwards that it was the custom to change the names ofhotels every six months or so. AMRITZAR AND LAHORE 16 say he had received a post-card from us, but whenasked to produce it only showed a letter fromsome one else! Finally we got into a carriage,
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