“The next morning, a motley gathering of coolies assembled beneath the apple-trees…

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“The next morning, a motley gathering of coolies assembled beneath the apple-trees and waited some hours, to take us to the ruins of Marttanda. It has been a wonderful old building…in a wonderful position, and it’s greatest in the obvious agglomeration of styles and periods in which it had grown up. Never can I forget the deep black shadows under the series of arches that confronted us, as we entered in mid-afternoon, with the sun directly behind us, in the west. There were three arches, one straight behind the other, and just within the farthest of them, at two-thirds of its height, a heavy straight lined window-top…The Swami was hard at work, in an instant, on observations and theories, pointing out the cornice that ran along the nave from the entrance to the sanctuary… The ride back, through the sun-set light, was charming…” (July 23, 1898)

 

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