Special Act required for preservation of cow bison.

CHAPTER VII.—­GOLD.

The earliest tradition as regards gold in Mysore.

Explanation of gold being found on the ears of corn.  Lieutenant
    Warren’s investigations in 1800.

Native methods of procuring gold by washing and mining.

Depths to which old native pits were sunk.

Probable cause of the cessation of mining at considerable depths.

In 1873 leave first given to a European to mine for gold. 
    Remarkable absence in Mysore of old records or inscriptions
    relating to gold mining.

Mr. Lavelle in 1873 applied for right to mine in Kolar.

Of the mines subsequently started all practically closed in 1882,
    except the Mysore mine, which began to get gold in end of 1884.

Had the Mysore Company not persevered the Kolar field would
    probably have been closed.  Depths to which mines have been sunk. 
    The Champion Lode.

General description of the Kolar field.  Notes by a lady resident.

Life on the field.  Gardening.  Visitors from England.

The volunteers at the mines.  Sport near the field.

Servants and supplies.  Elevation and the climate.  A healthy one.

Mining and the extraction of gold.

The rates of wages.  No advances given to labourers.

Expenditure by the companies in Mysore in wages.  Consequential
    results therefrom on the prosperity of the people.

Measures which the State should take to encourage the opening of
    new mines.

Royalty on mines that are not paying should be reduced or
    abolished.  Act required to check gold stealing.

Some summary process should be adopted to check gold thefts.

Want of water on the field.  Measures proposed for conserving it.

The want of tree planting.  Other auriferous tracts in Mysore.  Mr.
    R. Bruce Foote’s report.

Brief analysis of Mr. Bruce Foote’s report on the various
    auriferous tracts.  The central group of auriferous rocks.

The west-central group.

The western group.  Expects that many other old abandoned workings
    will be discovered in the jungly tracts.

An inexhaustible supply of beautiful porphyry near Seringapatam
    and close to a railway.

CHAPTER VIII.—­CASTE.

Valuable to rural populations.

My inquiry limited to its rural and practical effects on life.

Its moral effects as regards the connection of the sexes.

Its value in limiting the use of alcohol.

Morality in Manjarabad superior to that of England.

Widows may contract a kind of marriage.  The value of caste in
    socially segregating inferior from superior races.