. Imperial India; an artist's journals. HIS HIGHNESS RAM SING, MAHARAJAH OF JEYPORE, CHAPTER VII. AJMERE—ROAD TO JODHPORE. Beatir, 33 7mles on the way from Ajinere to Jodhpore. I LEFT Jeypore with anger and vexation of spirit, and viewthe old Rajah as a pious fraud; for I delayed my de-parture a day to have one sitting from him in his robes, andwhen I went to the palace, I was told the old man was ill, andcould not sit. Perhaps it may be said that this was not hisfault. Certainly it wasnt, but then I had been a week at Jey-pore, and he might have given me another sitting. Pooja andhis Highness
. Imperial India; an artist's journals. HIS HIGHNESS RAM SING, MAHARAJAH OF JEYPORE, CHAPTER VII. AJMERE—ROAD TO JODHPORE. Beatir, 33 7mles on the way from Ajinere to Jodhpore. I LEFT Jeypore with anger and vexation of spirit, and viewthe old Rajah as a pious fraud; for I delayed my de-parture a day to have one sitting from him in his robes, andwhen I went to the palace, I was told the old man was ill, andcould not sit. Perhaps it may be said that this was not hisfault. Certainly it wasnt, but then I had been a week at Jey-pore, and he might have given me another sitting. Pooja andhis Highness of Bhoondi were against me; indeed, I fear thatthe former is much used by the Jeypore wallah as an excusewhen he is wanted for important business. Somehow, too, eitherfrom a chill, or what is more likely, from exposing myself toomuch to the sun, I had a touch of fever, so that when I arrivedat Ajmere I felt all over like. As this was my first experienceof fever, and as such attacks are very common in India, thoughhappily rare in Eng
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