Each room had the customary bath attached--a room ten or twelve feet square, with a roomy stone-paved pit in it and abundance of water.

One could not easily improve upon this arrangement, except by furnishing it with cold water and excluding the hot, in deference to the fervency of the climate; but that is forbidden.

It would damage the bather's health.

The stranger is warned against taking cold baths in India, but even the most intelligent strangers are fools, and they do not obey, and so they presently get laid up.

I was the most intelligent fool that passed through, that year.