Stebbins, R. 1963 Asian Trip 17 New Delhi Jan. 11 People - great range in skin color - very dark to nearly white. Few people little taller than 2. All seem to be dark eyed. Great range in degree of affluence. Perhaps 10% seem well-dressed and evidently wealthy; possibly 15-20% are obviously poor - 5% extremely so - bare-legged, thin, clothes in rags. Small boys (especially) follow us about tenaciously trying to sell a shoe-shine or newspaper. Several little beggars cling to us for a trice. It took a coin from each of them to loose one of them. Saw a boy only 3½' ? tall, perhaps 8 years old smoking - a lively noisy little guy. A beggar with both hands missing followed us for a trice, gently prodding us with one arm stub, begging. Many poor people sit cross-legged on the ground with their wares spread out in front of them - trinkets, food, comic books, etc. One man was selling an ingenious device for making a pattern of white sand (?) on the ground. A cardboard cylinder with perforations was filled with the material and rolled over the ground. A beautiful design was left behind. At a corner toy shop looked at a fire-making set - flint, steel, & punk. After many