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Show 4 and Telugu of his native province, Madras. Inasmuch as it was Novembe and the cold weather was beginning, we were eager to reach Kashmir without delay, so we left Karachi for the north on the day Mr. Rao arrived. Fo yearsit had been my desire tovisit the handmade paper village in the nativ introduced into India. The paper village lies a few miles from Srinagar, an the nearest approach by railway is at Rawalpindi, Punjab, a distance o more than two hundred miles from the Kashmir capital. We left Karach atnight, bound for Rawalpindi by way of Multan and Lahore. Thej requires thirty-four hours of travel through the Indian desert, and as fa During this journey T a my introduction to Indian sleeping cars, which later were to become s familiar to me, for in my travels in India T spent nineteen nights in th sleeping compartments of railway carriages. In each compartment there ar usually six berths, three lower and three upper, all without curtains or an all manner of paraphernalia-huge brass tea pots, betel-nut boxes wit their numerous receptacles for lime, leaves and spices so relished by th Indum, great clay water bottles held in wooden racks, and heavy iron as "Good Luck," "Dreams the Best," and "Fountain of Sleep." One pillow in the possession of an illiterate old Hindu, probably embroidered b his missionary-educated daughter, was decorated with a red rose borde within which were the words, worked in fancy letters, "May Slumber Cree Over My Father. |