Chapter I: Preface

The following series of "Travel Pictures" is an endeavour to embody some of my impressions and experiences in India and Burmah.

For kind permission to reproduce among the illustrations eight of the painted sketches I made for them, my thanks are due to the Visual Instruction Committee of the Colonial Office who sent me out to the East as their artist.

The two chapters "The Moharam Festival" and "Rakhykash" are included in this book by the courtesy of the Editor of _The Fortnightly Review_, in which publication they have already appeared.

A. HUGH FISHER.

CONTENTS

CHAP.

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

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