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Title: Winter India
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah, 1856-1928
Subjects: India -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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le, could attract us longer—all interestin art, archaeology-, and architecture scorched andscotched for the day. For a half-mile we had madeDaniel give guarantees of importance before wewould look within a cave or take one extra step inthat terrible scorch and sun-glare of a midwintermorning. The sands were blinding and our boats quiveredin heat-waves as we went toward them at noon; butwhile the coolies splashed along over tow-paths sub-merged by the tide, we were cooled by a gentle head-wind all the afternoon. The water was a-splash withbits of silver, and one of the trackers stopped,wrestled with something under his foot, and threwa large fish into the boat. At sunset we could see afaint line of surf beyond the sand wastes, and thebeat of the sea was heard through hours of darknesssucceeding the most beautiful, moist pink sunset. When the candles were lighted a great, two-inchbrown cockroach ran up the side of the boat, stood up-side down on the mat ceiling, and waved his feelers.
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MADRAS AND THE SEVEN PAGODAS 79 Others followed the beckoning leader until the placewas swarming, and we retreated to the chairs atthe stern, where, with breakneck naps, we spent thenight, shuddering to think of the preceding night,when, preferring starlight to candles, we had goneto bed in the dark. The sky was full of big, yellow, pulsing stars, butthe Southern Cross was not visible. Orion gradu-ally changed its angle and tilted itself almost in re-verse; and Orion was a great offense to me in thoselow latitudes. As if one went to latitude 0° and to6° N. and 13° N. to see ones most familiar northernconstellation! Mehlady! Meh lady! The Holy Cross is herein the sky now, said faithful David at four oclock,and he crossed himself as became a good Romanist,There, straightaway in our wake to southward, weretwo lopsided crosses, or diamonds, each outlined byfour great, glowing yellow stars where the narrowcut of the Buckingham Canal exactly underlay andreflected the great southern const

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