India impressions, with some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7 [microform] . nted to make a drawing of him,was nowhere to be found, and I had to make thebest of it with an unwilling and quite inferior sub-stitute, who had no idea of keeping still, and evenended the seance by squatting on the ground withhis back to one ! It struck me that the natives do not like beingdrawn or painted, as a rule, to judge by the variousattempts one made to secure models. The onewanted always disappeared when the time came,and another, but not a better and without the samecharacteristics, offered. The
India impressions, with some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7 [microform] . nted to make a drawing of him,was nowhere to be found, and I had to make thebest of it with an unwilling and quite inferior sub-stitute, who had no idea of keeping still, and evenended the seance by squatting on the ground withhis back to one ! It struck me that the natives do not like beingdrawn or painted, as a rule, to judge by the variousattempts one made to secure models. The onewanted always disappeared when the time came,and another, but not a better and without the samecharacteristics, offered. The little palm squirrels were very numeroushere, and would scamper about the terraces andbalconies of the Guest House, and even chase eachother into our rooms, or come up for the crumbswe scattered, sitting up on their haunches to nibbleat them, held in their fore-paws in true squirrel GWALIOR 137 fashion. Equally familiar were the sparrows whichflew in and out, unmolested and fearless, evenperching sometimes on the breakfast table. Thecrows too would congregate on the balcony rails if. CALLERS AT THE GUEST HOUSE, GWALIOR any feeding was going on, frequently joining us atafternoon tea, at a respectful distance, thoughwithin short range of the scattered crumbs. We witnessed several very lovely sunsets overthe Rock of Gwalior, a type of frequent occurrencebeino- an arrangement of lonp-, low stratus clouds,brilliantly illuminated on their under edges asthe sun sank below the horizon, the light deep- i38 INDIA IMPRESSIONS ening from orange into crimson. Another typeconsisted of golden fleeces of high cirrus clouds,rippling out over spaces of turquoise. We paid another visit to the old town of Gwaliorand climbed the hill as far as the third gate, whereI made a sketch showing the towers of the ManMandir Palace through the arch. From a terrace extending along the hill near thisgate there is a fine panoramic view, the old towmlying below, partly ruined and deserted, a mass ofcrumbling wal
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