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42 and swords, carvings, and the crudest of curios, including prayer-wheels, amulets, skull-drums and trumpets of human bones, and "genuine" antiquities from Tibet and China, most of which are of local manufacture, and made specially for sale to visitors.

The bazaar or market, though not beautiful in its

buildings, is on Sunday morning a scene of eager bustle and bright colour, a paletteful of tints. Its varied groups of humanity, too, are most interesting in themselves to those Europeans who are not hopelessly prejudiced against everything "native". For it is too much the fashion of the Anglo-Indians at Darjeeling to put all these hillfolk, from the mere fact of their being "natives", on the same