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whisky and the gift fruit basket seemed once again more suitable. My wife stood by me as always.

After a good night's sleep I felt a bit better, but now Virginia had a sore throat. (So, as we •A^ned later, had most of the rest of the party—in the heat of the Indian spring!) Beneath our window was a swimming-pool and a landscaped garden with spectacular flowers. Beyond the garden, an unofficial footpath cut off the corner between a local byroad and the main road in front of the hotel. As we looked out, seven or eight women in a rainbow of saris filed along the path, presumably on their way to the bus and work. The image has stayed in our minds as a symbol of rural India.

That morning our bus carried us clear through the city of Jaipur to the old capital, Amber, eleven kilometers to the north. There, from a narrow valley leading into a seemingly endless jumble of rugged

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