Rifle and spear with the Rajpoots: being the narrative of a winter's travel and sport in northern India . Conscience—An embarrassingnative custom—The bag of rupees—Indian railway accommodation—Arrival at Rajghur—Groundbait for tigers—In an elephant camp-Decorated elephants—A tiger drive—Hermiron Singh—The littleRaja and his playfellows—Snake-charming and hypnotism—Charmingthe foxes—News of a panther—An amusing adventure—A sounder ofwild boars—To Deoli in a dakghari—The Raja of Boondis horoscope—His political economy theories—A fossil State—Arrival at Kotah—The town, the Residency, and the Maha
Rifle and spear with the Rajpoots: being the narrative of a winter's travel and sport in northern India . Conscience—An embarrassingnative custom—The bag of rupees—Indian railway accommodation—Arrival at Rajghur—Groundbait for tigers—In an elephant camp-Decorated elephants—A tiger drive—Hermiron Singh—The littleRaja and his playfellows—Snake-charming and hypnotism—Charmingthe foxes—News of a panther—An amusing adventure—A sounder ofwild boars—To Deoli in a dakghari—The Raja of Boondis horoscope—His political economy theories—A fossil State—Arrival at Kotah—The town, the Residency, and the Maharajas palace—Baggingan alligator—Oriental poetry and a contrast—A tragic story—Asambhur drive—Colonel Wyllies camp—The Maharaja of Kotah. In the evening we went to Zafirs house to see anautch. The inner court, covered over and carpeted, wasbrilliantly lit up bylamps and candles. Wewere conducted to an al-cove at one end, whereseveral well-dressednatives were alreadyseated. Zafir and themen of his family satby us, the women look-ing on from behind a. A NATIVE MUSICIAN. screen in the gallery above. The dancing-girls squatted T 274 RIFLE AND SPEAR WITH THE RAJPOOTS. in the middle of the floor, with three musicians behindthem. Two of these had string instruments, somethinglike exaggerated banjoes, played, or rather scraped, witha bow; the third had the native tom-tom. When weentered, I thought the orchestra was tuning up, but learntthey were conscientiously executing a favourite Indian dancers then began, but there was little of our ownidea of dancing in their movements, and their poses wererigid and mechanical. The Indian poets liken the gait oftheir heroines to a young elephant, or a goose—soperhaps they came up to their standard of to their feet, they moved slowly round in thestiffest possible manner, all the while keeping to the samespot of ground, varied by an occasional shuffle towards ar
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