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Title: Indian pictures and problems
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Malcolm, Ian, Sir, 1868-1944
Subjects: India -- Description and travel Burma -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : E. Grant Richard
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ve for their morning drink—firstin scores then in hundreds. They fly very highand swoop at the shot, which makes it ratherdifficult to be sure of killing with the second barrel.For two hours exactly this wonderful sight con-tinued—birds flocking in from every quarter of thecompass, swooping, circling, disappearing, and thenreturning to the only water in the desert—and byeleven oclock there was not one to be seen. Inthat time we managed to get about three hundredbirds between us at the lake; the other guns hadgot a few, but their chief function was to keep thegrouse from settling on the smaller ponds. It wasvery hot work, especially after ten oclock, whenthe sun was high; and the subsequent bath andexcellent breakfast seemed equally memorableevents upon a memorable day. In the afternoon,before starting back for Bikanir, we went to seethe wild boars fed from the castle wall. At threeoclock every day the head keeper utters an odd cry of invitation, which echoes curiously through 38
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u 55 THE KING OF THE DESERT the apparently empty jungle. The cry is repeatedagain and again; peacocks fly down to the clearedspace below, a few partridges assemble, and gra-dually from far and near boars and sows andsqueakers trot in for their daily bread—good grainplentifully poured to them out of sacks. I have kept until the last the feature of thevisit which pleased me most. It was not hispride in that camel corps which did such excel-lent service in Somaliland, nor his absorbed in-terest in his public school for the sons of nobles,which will have far-reaching and wholesomeeffects upon future relations between the rulerand the chieftains under him—though both theseinstitutions do him the utmost credit. What Imost admired was the touching and perfect con-fidence which exists between the Maharajah andhis people. It was very forcibly brought to mynotice one afternoon when he drove me through thecity. Nobody knew that he was going there ; wedid not know ourselves till a quarter of

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