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Title: Rifle and spear with the Rajpoots: being the narrative of a winter's travel and sport in northern India
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Gardner, Nora Beatrice Blyth, Hon. Mrs
Subjects: Rajput (Indic people) Hunting
Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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wires were all takendown, and re-erected on the right of the road. All theseyoung men are educated as well as an average English ladof the upper classes, and speak our language not onlyfluently, but with a knowledge of slang and the argot ofthe pink 1111, which a British subaltern might envy.But the superstitions rooted for centuries are hard toeradicate, and continually crop up like weeds amongstmodern cultivation. If any one should have the ill-luckto sneeze on his way out shooting or pig-sticking, heimmediately returns home. I drove to see the old fort, which is well worth a visit.It is fast becoming a ruin. The ravines cut out by the THE OLD FORT, DI10LITK. 215 rains encroach on it every year more and more, and inplaces have already undermined the walls. There is afine entrance gate still intact, and near it lies a rustycannon some twenty feet long. Inside are the remains ofa picturesque palace, and several old houses with beauti-fully carved facades. They arc now tenantless, and
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ANCIENT FORT, DHOLPUR:. deserted by all save the peacocks, who strut up anddown, arrogant masters of the place. January Gth, 1893.—We left Dholpur this morningfor Ao-ra. It is a iourney of only thirty-five miles, butthe mail train takes over two hours to accomplish it. Inthe afternoon we visited the Agra jail. It is not enoughto say that like all Indian prisons this is a model one. 216 RIFLE AXD SPEAR WITH THE RAJPOOTS. Everything is so clean, so comfortable, and so well arranged,that were I an Indian, I feel confident I should commitsome fearful crime, to escape from my dirty native villageinto such a comparative Paradise of cleanly comfort. The food is prepared by Brahmin prisoners. No castecan object to their cooking, and the enormous chappatiesthey were baking looked as appetising as I am sure theyare indigestible. This jail was the first, or one of the first,to put its convicts to remunerative work, principally in theform of carpet-making. The carpets are as good, but donot see

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