Word: rajputana
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...Francisco with a large number of guns and cameras great & small. There he planned to embark for the Protectorate of Cambodia in French Indo-China. His purpose: big-game hunting. He said he would call upon the Emperor of Japan, the King of Siam, the native rulers of Rajputana and Baroda...
MacLaren, British flier, half way across India last week, was forced down in Rajputana. His engine was so damaged that he needed three days before going on. The American world fliers were at Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands, awaiting Commander F. L. Martin who was still at Chignik, the last stopping-point on the American continent. They have travelled a few hundred miles less than MacLaren, but they have almost covered the worst part of their itinerary and will now head to milder, southern climes. MacLaren's worst troubles...
...close of the first instalment there is already an indication of a change of the scene to India. The motive of the story is the quest of an American, Nicholas Tarvin, for a celebrated necklace of jewels which hangs round the neck of an idol, in the province of Rajputana, and which he has promised to bring back to Mrs. Mutrie, at Topaz, Colorado, in order to obtain her influence in behalf of the town he is booming. In the working out of this unique theme, some surprising situations may be looked...