Chapter LI.
Benares a Religious Temple—A Guide for
Pilgrims to Save Time in Securing
Salvation
Chapter LII. A Curious Way to Secure Salvation—The Banks of the Ganges—Architecture Represents Piety—A Trip on the River—Bathers and their Costumes —Drinking the Water—A Scientific Test of the Nasty Purifier—Hindoo Faith in the Ganges—A Cremation—Remembrances of the Suttee—All Life Sacred Except Human Life—The Goddess Bhowanee, and the Sacrificers—Sacred Monkeys—Ugly Idols Everywhere—Two White Minarets—A Great View with a Monkey in it—A Picture on the Water
Chapter LIII.
Still in Benares—Another Living God—Why
Things are Wonderful—Sri 108
Utterly Perfect—How He Came so—Our
Visit to Sri—A Friendly Deity
Exchanging Autographs and Books—Sri’s
Pupil—An Interesting Man
—Reverence and Irreverence—Dancing
in a Sepulchre
Chapter LIV.
Rail to Calcutta—Population—The
“City of Palaces”—A Fluted
Candle-stick—Ochterlony—Newspaper
Correspondence—Average Knowledge of
Countries—A Wrong Idea of Chicago—Calcutta
and the Black Hole
—Description of the Horrors—Those
Who Lived—The Botanical Gardens—The
Afternoon Turnout—Grand Review—Military
Tournament—Excursion on the
Hoogly—The Museum—What Winter
Means Calcutta
Chapter LV On the Road Again—Flannels in Order—Across Country—From Greenland’s Icy Mountain—Swapping Civilization—No Field women in India—How it is in Other Countries—Canvas-covered Cars—The Tiger Country—My First Hunt Some Elephants Get Away—The Plains of India—The Ghurkas—Women for Pack-Horses—A Substitute for a Cab—Darjeeling—The Hotel—The Highest Thing in the Himalayas—The Club—Kinchinjunga and Mt. Everest —Thibetans—The Prayer Wheel—People Going to the Bazar
Chapter LVI.
On the Road Again—The Hand-Car—A
Thirty-five-mile Slide—The Banyan
Tree—A Dramatic Performance—The
Railroad—The Half-way House—The
Brain
Fever Bird—The Coppersmith Bird—Nightingales
and Cue Owls
Chapter LVII. India the Most Extraordinary Country on Earth—Nothing Forgotten—The Land of Wonders—Annual Statistics Everywhere about Violence—Tiger vs. Man—A Handsome Fight—Annual Man Killing and Tiger Killing—Other Animals—Snakes—Insurance and Snake Tables—The Cobra Bite—Muzaffurpore —Dinapore—A Train that Stopped for Gossip—Six Hours for Thirty-five Miles—A Rupee to the Engineer—Ninety Miles an Hour—Again to Benares, the Piety Hive To Lucknow
Chapter LVIII.
The Great Mutiny—The Massacre in Cawnpore—Terrible
Scenes in Lucknow
—The Residency—The Siege
Chapter LIX.
A Visit to the Residency—Cawnpore—The
Adjutant Bird and the Hindoo
Corpse—The Tai Mahal—The True
Conception—The Ice Storm—True
Gems
—Syrian Fountains—An Exaggerated
Niagara