StNicholas [serial] . he heat of the day. Buton the morning of which I speak we were tohave an unusual experience, and were promptlyready at half-past four. We drove through the city, already alive withpeople, out into the country, which was de- 63 64 THE MONKEYS OF AMBER. [Nov. lightful in the cool morning air. The charm ofthe semi-tropical vegetation, the lovely flowersand luxuriant vines, the towering palms andodorous evergreens, was new every morningand fresh every evening. The costumes at Jeypore are brilliant andvaried in color. Hindu women wear skirts,and Mohammedan women wear trousers,
StNicholas [serial] . he heat of the day. Buton the morning of which I speak we were tohave an unusual experience, and were promptlyready at half-past four. We drove through the city, already alive withpeople, out into the country, which was de- 63 64 THE MONKEYS OF AMBER. [Nov. lightful in the cool morning air. The charm ofthe semi-tropical vegetation, the lovely flowersand luxuriant vines, the towering palms andodorous evergreens, was new every morningand fresh every evening. The costumes at Jeypore are brilliant andvaried in color. Hindu women wear skirts,and Mohammedan women wear trousers, withgaily colored muslins twisted about their heads stables of the Maharaja of Jeypore to takeus up to the old capital, the city of Amber,deserted by the inhabitants when Jeypore wasfounded in 1728. These elephants were not dressed in gold-embroidered velvets, bearing sumptuous how-dahs, as we frequently saw them in processionson the grand occasions at which the high-casteIndians assisted. These monstrous beasts were. IN THE CITY OK AMBER. and bodies down to the waist. Below the el-bow they wear bracelets of silver, glass, or lead,and on the upper arm a broader and heavierband called an armlet. They have anklets ofmetal, and toe-rings that jingle as they shufflealong in bare feet. But their ear-rings are theirmost effective ornaments, and are in rows aroundthe ears, numbering from four to ten in each were soon beyond the town, driving on awide country road, and saw in the distance thehuge elephants which had been sent from the not very clean, and had broad wooden plat-forms across their backs, with narrow strips ofboard hung by strings on each side, fallingabout eighteen inches below the all this a rug was thrown, and on it threeor four people were to sit in a row on eachside, resting their feet on the hanging strips. This primitive arrangement was not attrac-tive; but when several carriages arrived, andthe party was complete, the mahouts (elephant-drivers
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