CHAPTER IP 
India and Ceylon, 1903-4 
What follows is an account of the entomological experiences of a 
“ globe-trotter,” that is, of a traveller whose main object was to take 
an all too rapid glance at the scenery, the peoples, and the archi¬ 
tecture of the places visited, and whose route was planned with that 
object. That I was able to give so much time to collecting was due 
to the fact that, whereas my daughter and her companion felt the 
heat so much that they usually kept within doors from about 10 a.m. 
to 3 p.m., I, for my part, protected by a “ sola topi ” of the “ pig¬ 
sticker” type, and a spinal pad to my coat, suffered no serious 
inconvenience from the sun's rays so long as I took active exercise. 
Indeed there can be little doubt that I must have been intended 
for a Salamander. Thus in the Red Sea at the end of September 
it had been very hot; the air had the hot smell of a Turkish bath ; 
it was one continuous drip and trickle. Nevertheless I thoroughly 
enjoyed it, though most people complained greatly. An American, 
who appeared to be much distressed, when asked how he was getting 
on, replied: “Wa-all, I’m just thinking what a fool I have been 
not to be contented with reading about Shadrach, Meshech, and 
Abed-nego instead of coming here to see what it was like! ” 
I sailed from England in September, 1903, without the slightest 
intention of collecting, and started accordingly with no entomological 
outfit save half-a-dozen pill-boxes. Not only was I without net and 
killing-bottle, I was without books, and worse still, was in woeful 
ignorance of the Lepidoptera of the Oriental Region. 
Finding it very hot at Bombay we took train for Simla the day 
after landing, and a little south of Jhansi I was struck by the large 
numbers of bright yellow butterflies flying along the railway banks— 
certainly a Terias, in all probability hecabe. October 5th found us 
at Kalka, at the foot of “ The Hills.” Fortunately the new railway 
was not yet open, so we had to be driven up the 58 miles to Simla 
1 The greater part of this chapter first appeared in the Transactions of the 
Entomological Society of London, 1905, p. 61. 
