I. [RANGOON]
II. [HIS HIGHNESS THE SAWBWA OF HSIPAW]
III. [UP THE IRRAWADDY TO BHAMO]
IV. [THE DEAD HEART OF A KINGDOM]
V. [MANDALAY]
VI. [SOUTHERN INDIA, THE LAND OF HINDOO TEMPLES]
VII. [CALCUTTA]
VIII. [MY FIRST SIGHT OF THE HIMALAYAS]
IX. [BENARES]
X. [LUCKNOW]
XI. [CAWNPORE]
XII. [THE HOUSE OF DREAM]
XIII. [DELHI]
XIV. [DEHRA DUN AND LANDOUR]
XV. [AN EVENING OF GOLD]
XVI. ["GUARD YOUR SHOES"]
XVII. ["A GATE OF EMPIRE"]
XVIII. [THE CAPITAL OF THE PUNJAB]
XIX. [AT THE COURT OF HIS HIGHNESS THE RAJAH OF NABHA]
XX. [IN SIGHT OF AFGHANISTAN]
XXI. [RAJPUTANA]
XXII. [SIR PRATAP SINGH]
XXIII. [THE MOHARAM FESTIVAL]
XXIV. [RAKHYKASH]
XXV. [POLITICAL]
[INDEX]
ILLUSTRATIONS
[THE MOAT, FORT DUFFERIN, MANDALAY ... Frontispiece]
["THEY COULD NOT LIE DOWN WITHOUT OVERLAPPING"]
[MONGOLIAN TYPE OF MOHAMMEDAN]
[MUTAMA, A HINDOO BABY]
[HINDOO GIRL, SHOWING ELABORATE JEWELLERY]
[ALTAR TABLE AT A BUDDHIST SOCIETY'S CELEBRATION]
[BOY SHOWING TATOOING CUSTOMARY WITH ALL BURMESE MALES]
[IN THE SHAN STATES: GUARD AND POLICEMAN]
[KATHA]
[AT A BURMESE PWE]
[BURMESE ACTORS AT BHAMO]
[A VILLAGE ON THE IRRAWADDY]
[BURMESE MURDERERS]
[PAGAN]
[BURMESE DWARF (3 ft. 5 in. high) SUFFERING FROM CATARACT]
[BURMESE PRIEST AND HIS BETEL Box]
[BURMESE MOTHER AND CHILD]
[THE SACRED TANK AND THE ROCK, TRICHINOPOLY]
[THE MAIN BAZAAR, TRICHINOPOLY]
[KARAPANASAMI, THE BLACK GOD]
[HINDOO MOTHER AND CHILD]
[BENGAL GOVERNMENT OFFICES, CALCUTTA]
[BENGALEE ACTRESS, MISS TIN CORRY DASS THE YOUNGER]
["A CHARMING OLD GENTLEMAN FROM DELHI"]
[AVENUE OF OREODOXA PALMS, BOTANICAL GARDENS, CALCUTTA]
[THE KUTAB MINAR AND THE IRON PILLAR, FATEHPUR SIKRI]
[THE FORT OF ALI MASJID, IN THE KHYBER PASS]
[HIS HIGHNESS THE RAJAH OF NABHA]
[THE PALACE OF THE MAHARAJAH OF UDAIPUR (DRYPOINT ETCHING)]
[THE MOHARAM FESTIVAL AT AGRA]
THROUGH INDIA AND BURMAH
CHAPTER I
RANGOON
Down came the rain, sudden, heavy and terrible, seeming to quell even the sea's rage and whelming those defenceless hundreds of dark-skinned voyagers in new and more dreadful misery.
Terrors were upon them, and in abject wretchedness and hopeless struggle men, women and children spread every strip of their belongings over their bodies and even used for shelter the very mats upon which they had been lying.
What trouble a Hindoo will take to keep his body from the rain! Extremely cleanly and fond of unlimited ablutions he yet detests nothing so much as a wetting from the sky, and now, wholly at the mercy of the elements, do what they would, no human ingenuity availed to keep these wretched people dry.