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Title: Wanderings east of Suez in Ceylon, India, China and Japan
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Penfield, Frederic Courtland, 1855-1922
Subjects: East Asia -- Description and travel India -- Description and travel Sri Lanka -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : George Bell and Sons New York : Century co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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in reality is scarcelj more than a mask of stuccoerected to make a show from the street. The Ma-harajahs palace and grounds cover a seventh ofthe area of this finest of modern Hindu cities. Astones throw from the palace portal is a templewherein Jeypore women beseech the image ofSiva to bless them with children: and elsewhereare a Gate of Rubies, and a Temple of the Sun. Atscores of wayside shops tiny idols of the Hinduhierarchy, and silver bracelets and gewgaws, aresold to people almost infantile in their cheerful-ness. Wedding processions jDass and repass witha frequency proving an active matrimonial mar-ket, each led by joyous singers and drum-beaters. An entrancing place is this seat of His High-ness of Jej^Dore, and comioensating for the tediousrailway journey from Delhi landing one at thecitys gates in the inky darkness of 4:30 in themorning. At his hotel a visitor learns that a for-mal request must be made for permission to in-spect the Maharajahs palace and stables, and to 152
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The Vicarious Maharajah of Jeypore go to the abandoned capital of the state, Ambir,five miles away. You make application througha deputy, usually the man-servant traveling withyou, and an hour later comes formal notificationthat His Highness welcomes you to his capital,and that a state carriage will be sent for your use,as well as a state elephant to carry you up thehills to Ambir. This outburst of hospitality comeswith a surprise and force that almost sweeps oneoff his feet, and you have instant misgivings forhaving troubled the august potentate at such anunreasonable morning hour. Then your brain al-most reels as you recall books that had dwelt uponthe limitless hospitality of Eastern princes, andyou hope that His Highness will not insist uponyour dining with him—with your evening dressand high hat awaiting you at a Bombay hotel acommand to the palace would, to say the least, beawkward. But you are spared this inconvenience, probablybecause the Maharajah is as familiar with de-put

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