CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
My First Glimpse of the Orient[1]
CHAPTER II
Andrew[12]
CHAPTER III
Our Day Out[19]
CHAPTER IV
My First ’Rickshaw Ride[26]
CHAPTER V
In the Burra Bazaar[35]
CHAPTER VI
A Christmas Dinner on a Roof[55]
CHAPTER VII
Oriental Obsequies—A Hindoo Burning Ghât[62]
CHAPTER VIII
Oriental Nuptials—A Hindoo Marriage[70]
CHAPTER IX
King Theebaw’s State Barge[80]
CHAPTER X
Oriental Obsequies—Burmese Burials[87]
CHAPTER XI
Oriental Nuptials—Burmese Bridals[93]
CHAPTER XII
A Jaunt in a House-boat through the Home of the Wild White Rose[100]
CHAPTER XIII
An Opium Den in Shanghai[112]
CHAPTER XIV
Memories of Hong-Kong[120]
CHAPTER XV
A Glimpse of Canton[131]
CHAPTER XVI
Chinese Prisoners[151]
CHAPTER XVII
The Chinese New Year[157]
CHAPTER XVIII
Oriental Obsequies—Chinese Coffins[164]
CHAPTER XIX
Oriental Nuptials—Chinese Espousals[173]
CHAPTER XX
Chinese Shoes[180]
CHAPTER XXI
Japanese Touch[188]
CHAPTER XXII
Four Women that I knew in Tokio—Mrs. Keutako[196]
CHAPTER XXIII
Four Women that I knew in Tokio—The Countess Oyama and Mrs. Uriu[206]
CHAPTER XXIV
Four Women that I knew in Tokio—Madame Sannomiya[214]
CHAPTER XXV
Tom Street[223]
CHAPTER XXVI
Oriental Obsequies—A Japanese Funeral[235]
CHAPTER XXVII
Oriental Nuptials—Japanese Wedlock[241]
CHAPTER XXVIII
Bamboo[249]
CHAPTER XXIX
On the Himalayas[255]
CHAPTER XXX
My Ayah[265]
CHAPTER XXXI
Sambo[275]
CHAPTER XXXII
How we kept House on the Hills[288]
CHAPTER XXXIII
Oriental Obsequies—The Parsi Towers of Silence[298]
CHAPTER XXXIV
Oriental Nuptials—A Parsi Wedding[306]
CHAPTER XXXV
At Subathu where the Bagpipes play and the Lepers hide[315]
CHAPTER XXXVI
In the Officers’ Mess[322]
CHAPTER XXXVII
At the Mouth of the Khyber Pass[328]
CHAPTER XXXVIII
An Impromptu Dinner Party in the Punjab[335]
CHAPTER XXXIX
Salaam![341]
Glossary[349]