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by the Salvation Army i.s great, but in this country I 

 cannot help thinking they are a mistake. The Mahomme- 

 dans only laugh at them, or are rather pleased at the 

 seeming degradation of the " Sahib-logs' " religion. But 

 the educated Hindoos are ripe for conversion to a purer 

 faith. The more intellectual spirits are already seeking one, 

 or are manufacturing it for themselves. And a proud, high- 

 spirited race like the Rajpoots can only be disgusted with 

 this hysterical tomfoolery, and despise a religion which 

 allows its women to live unprotected with men of a lower 

 race. It was not in this way St. Paul set forth to convert 

 the Gentiles. 



A people can only be bettered by appealing to their 

 better instincts. With the Eajpoots these are courage and 

 chivalry, and they were ever ready to die a thousand deaths 

 rather than one of their women should lose caste. 

 Far lie it from me to say that these poor English Salva- 

 tionist girls do not do their duty according to their 

 lights ; but they gain little credit from the natives they 

 seek to convert, the Eajpoots especially, by living with 

 the dregs of a populace whose ideas of delicacy are fathoms 

 below the level of the author of Tom Jones. 



February 25th. — We arrived at Ajmere this morning, 

 and had just time for a drive round the bazaar and fort 

 before our train left for Jodhpore. The chief features of 

 Ajmere are a large artificial lake and the perpendicular 



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