vessel at Suez in generation, 18;
President Roosevelt's insistence for Panama canal, 19;
value of Oriental trade, 21, 22;
cotton of wrought in England, 22;
trifling exports of manufactured articles, 22;
diminutive trade with South America, 22;
desirability of trade extension in East, 23;
government's tariff at Panama, 24;
how to make Panama canal pay indirectly, 27;
demand for creation of merchant marine, 27;
to have 100,000,000 inhabitants when canal is completed, 28;
commercial supremacy without merchant marine, 29;
government's insistence on "open door" in China, 303;
seeming indifference to Chinese trade, 310;
waning cotton exports to China, 313, 314

Arabi, rebellion of, resulting in control of Egypt by Great Britain, 9;
Kandy, place of his exile, 110

Arjamand, consort of Shah Jahan, for whom Taj Mahal was erected, 171

Benares, headquarters of Hindu religion, 185-202;
burning ghat and cremations, 189-194;
Monkey Temple, 196-200

Bombay, headquarters of Parsees, 126;
a city gone sport-mad, 133, 134;
race meeting at, 137, 138
important cotton port, 139
superb railway station, 139

Buddhism, Kandy the Mecca of the faith, 95;
tenets of faith, 96, 97;
reputed tooth of Buddha, 97, 98, 101;
pilgrims to Kandy, 101, 102;
cremation, 102

Calcutta, 205-219;
Hooghly pilots, 206;
Job Charnock, founder of, 209, 210;
under Lord Curzon's viceroyship, 217, 218

Canals, no more inter-ocean canals possible, 4

Canton, unique and important commercial city, 244-266;
strenuous and monopolistic guide, 249;
street scenes and experiences, 250, 251;
executions, 255;
funeral procession, 256, 257;
educational center, 257;
educational examinations, 258, 259;
"literary poles," 260, 263;
boat-life on river front, 263, 264;
leper village and boat toll, 266

Caste, Rodiya people of Ceylon, 103, 104, 107;
British rule recognizes no distinctions of, 107;
as seen in Bombay, 140;
hereditary throughout India, 143;
man servant who could not carry his own packages, 144, 145, 146

Ceylon, where "only man is vile," 30
Cingalese, 34, 44;
area, population, and races, 44;
England's conquest of, 47;
railways, 47;
exports, 48;
elephant kraal, 48, 49;
an island paradise, 50;
the cadjan, 62, 63;
tea as "king crop," 117;
when coffee was chief crop, 121;
details of tea cultivation, 122, 125

China, Singapore and Hong Kong a