CONTENTS ix 



CHAPTER XIV 



Manantavadi and Malaria — Experimental garden — Products — A 

 clever thief— Blacksmith-jeweller — A silver chain — System of 

 payment — Wild mangoes — Gold and gold-craze, . . .155 



CHAPTER XV 



The wet season in The Wynad and Malabar — Land-wind — Dinah — 

 Pintu — Punch — Scenery of the West Coast — Native houses — 

 Government monopolies — Sardines — Pearl-fisheries — Cliff bees 

 — The apiary at Manantavadi — Silk-cotton — Varying climates 

 of India, 167 



CHAPTER XVI 



The first coming of ' The Lady ' — Captain H. and his pet aversion — 

 His conversion by Tim — Fright with a snake — Grass fires — 

 Caterpillars and fishing-lines — Silk moths — Trials of silk- 

 culture — And success, 181 



CHAPTER XVII 



Slaves in India — Native methods of hunting — Music and dancing — 

 The musical scale — Native music at Hyderabad and Madras — 

 The Todas— Their hospitality— Buffalo cream— Marriage system 

 — Sacrificial Festival, 193 



CHAPTER XVIII 



Return to Manantavadi — Butterflies — A man-eater and his prey — 

 Story of the tragedy — Mysterious disappearance of an English- 

 man — Drastic native punishments — Fakirs — Suttee — The Car 

 of Juggernaut — The martyr of Benares, 203 



CHAPTER XIX 



Changes in India — Government servants and gifts — The Zenanas — 

 Slave-girls — Visit to a Zenana at Hyderabad — Fidelity of 

 servants — Entertainments — The Nizam's palace — Native ban- 

 quets — Sir Salar Jung — Tombs of Golconda — Old priest in the 

 Mosque — Human monstrosities — ' God's animals,' . . .217 



