It is conducive to comfort to approach these resorts during the last stage,unless, of course, they happen to be those ephemeral caravansaries which close in confusion on the flight of the crowd; they are never comfortable.

Thursday, October 19.Another night in the train brought us to Delhi at dawn, and we drove up to the execrable caravansary of Mr. Maiden.

Here it lay in the peaceful backwater of a native caravansary, piled high on a bullock-cart, whose placid team lay near pensively chewing the "cud of sweet and bitter fancy," and apparently quite innocent of any intention of moving for a week or two!