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...carried for such emergencies. We arrived at Jeypur at 1pm and came to Jaipur Hotel finding it about like all the others. After lunch we took a nap and were in a carriage by 4 pm. We went to see the Maharajah's Palace, a very vast affair and built long ago. All Jaipur is [illegible] color, made so by a paint in stucco or put directly on walls. It is called a pink city, but the pink is crushed strawberry. The buildings are decorated with white stencil work and there are innumerable little balconies of grill work, so that the whole makes a very unique town. There is a lake in the garden of the palace provided with crocodiles and immense turtles which were fed for our benefit. A great flock of kites circled over the lake when the feeding began. The reason was that the feeders have a way of putting small bits of meat onthe noses of crocodiles and the kites swoop down and catch it off as they fly. The Maharajah has 3 real wives and 3000 concubines. There was a big palace for them...