Indian Dreamlands

TILE MOST BEAUTIFUL Spot IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE. 387" INDIAN DREAM LANDSI TOWARDS THE SUN BEFORE the discovery of the North Pole I had always believed that the failure of the expeditions was due to the fact that the explorers were generally recruited among those unable to support the cold. [...] The storks and swallows have set us the example of flying south in winter and the heart of man turns naturally towards the sun when the shadows of autumn are creeping across the world. [...] The air was that of summer and we were in the second quarter of the moon so that it may be truly said that the days were blue and gold and the evenings blue and silver. [...] We were of course in the European quarter of the town and what we looked at was The West in the East." But it was a West which the East had conquered and made its own. [...] The richness is all in the interior and I was much surprised to find the walls of the vestibule and the corridor surrounding the shrine covered with painted and gilded bas-reliefs representing the gods and demons of the Indian Pantheon.