viii ROUGHING IT IN SOUTHERN INDIA 



CHAPTER VII 



PAQB 



Calicut — The Zamorin and his palace— The Thears — Domestic 

 scenes — Feeding the babies — Natives callous to animal suffer- 

 ing — The Moplahs— Malabar law — Christian and 'heathen' 

 servants — ' Idol worship ' — Loganharri — Missions and 

 Missionaries, 74 



CHAPTER VIII 



Fighting bears — The hat-trick — Encounters with panthers — Hog 



deer and leopard-cat kitten, 85 



CHAPTER IX 



Eiver scenery — Kus-hus grass — Crocodiles — Riverside folk — Riding 

 on gourds — Malaria — The Bamboo stone — Pigmies, their food 

 and dress — Methods in illness and old age, .... 95 



CHAPTER X 



Home by canal — Maidenhair fern — Canal women and crocodiles — 

 Bathing mats — Pishashas—A 'cat-eyed' peon — Chowry, the 

 gardener's child — Ways of detecting crime — Chowry's hair — 

 The tattooing of Chinniah, 106 



CHAPTER XI 



Difficulties of travel — Travellers' Bungalow at Sultan's Battery — 

 Broken-down bridges — A banquet under difficulties — Story of a 

 premonition — Difficulties as to supplies — Substitute for coffee 

 — Smallpox — The dhoby's ways — Indian thieves, . . . 120 



CHAPTER XII 



Government order for general vaccination — Order rescinded — Lepers 



— Country leprosy — Cholera, 133 



CHAPTER XIII 



Elephantiasis — Guinea worm — Rainfall — Showers of fish — An ex- 

 ceptional season — An uninvited guest — Panthers in The Wynad 

 — Pony and panther — Commotion in kennel — Helmet bird — 

 Strange dishes, 143 



