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...be recommended, but elephant riding on a straight road isn't bad. The palace itself now deserted except for attendants is the finest thing we have yet seen in India, and is clean and really great. Upon our return we had some tea and toast and acknowledged a charming morning's experience. There is a temple in this palace to Kali the goddess of destruction, to whom the sacrifice is made every morning of a living goat. This Kali is said to e the one influence which can unite all Hindoos and the English think revival in her worship means preparation to destroy the English. They think this is the destruction the worshippers invoke. These Hindoos are such a mysterious people that even old residents of India do not pretend to understand them.
After our excursion and tea we rested until 2 pm at which time we lunched. All the guests had left the hotel and one new one arrived - an American man with whom it was a pleasure to talk. Then we took a carriage and down to the public garden - a very well kept, orderly, pretty garden but nothing...