Chapter LX.
To Lahore—The Governor’s Elephant—Taking
a Ride-No Danger from
Collision—Rawal Pindi—Back to
Delhi—An Orientalized Englishman
—Monkeys and the Paint-pot—Monkey
Crying over my Note-book—Arrival at
Jeypore—In Rajputana—Watching
Servants—The Jeypore Hotel—Our
Old and
New Satan—Satan as a Liar—The
Museum—A Street Show—Blocks of
Houses
—A Religious Procession
Chapter LXI.
Methods in American Deaf and Dumb Asylums—Methods
in the Public Schools
—A Letter from a youth in Punjab—Highly
Educated Service—A Damage to
the Country—A Little Book from Calcutta—Writing
Poor English
—Embarrassed by a Beggar Girl—A
Specimen Letter—An Application for
Employment—A Calcutta School Examination—Two
Samples of
Literature
Chapter LXII. Sail from Calcutta to Madras—Thence
to Ceylon—Thence for Mauritius —The
Indian Ocean—Our Captain’s Peculiarity
The Scot Has one too—The Flying-fish that
Went Hunting in the Field—Fined for Smuggling—Lots
of pets on Board—The Color of the Sea—The
Most Important Member of Nature’s Family—The
Captain’s Story of Cold Weather—Omissions
in the Ship’s Library—Washing Decks—Pyjamas
on Deck—The Cat’s Toilet—No
Interest in the Bulletin—Perfect Rest—The
Milky Way and the Magellan Clouds—Mauritius—Port
Louis—A Hot Country—Under French
Control —A Variety of People and Complexions—Train
to Curepipe—A Wonderful Office-holder—The
Wooden Peg Ornament—The Prominent Historical
Event of Mauritius—“Paul and Virginia”—One
of Virginia’s Wedding Gifts—Heaven
Copied after Mauritius—Early History of
Mauritius—Quarantines —Population
of all Kinds—What the World Consists of—Where
Russia and Germany are—A Picture of Milan
Cathedral—Newspapers—The Language—Best
Sugar in the World—Literature of Mauritius
Chapter LXIII.
Port Louis—Matches no Good—Good
Roads—Death Notices—Why European
Nations Rob Each Other—What Immigrants
to Mauritius Do—Population
—Labor Wages—The Camaron—The
Palmiste and other Eatables—Monkeys—The
Cyclone of 1892—Mauritius a Sunday Landscape
Chapter LXIV.
The Steamer “Arundel Castle”—Poor
Beds in Ships—The Beds in Noah’s Ark
—Getting a Rest in Europe—Ship
in Sight—Mozambique Channel—The
Engineer and the Band—Thackeray’s
“Madagascar”—Africanders Going
Home
—Singing on the After Deck—An
Out-of-Place Story—Dynamite Explosion in
Johannesburg—Entering Delagoa Bay—Ashore—A
Hot Winter—Small Town—No
Sights—No Carriages—Working
Women—Barnum’s Purchase of Shakespeare’s
Birthplace, Jumbo, and the Nelson Monument—Arrival
at Durban
Chapter LXV. Royal Hotel Durban—Bells that Did not Ring—Early Inquiries for Comforts —Change of Temperature after Sunset-Rickhaws—The Hotel Chameleon —Natives not out after the Bell—Preponderance of Blacks in Natal—Hair Fashions in Natal—Zulus for Police—A Drive round the Berea—The Cactus and other Trees—Religion a Vital Matter—Peculiar Views about Babies —Zulu Kings—A Trappist Monastery—Transvaal Politics—Reasons why the Trouble came About