it.

The want of tree planting. Other auriferous tracts in Mysore. Mr.
R. Bruce Foote's report.

Brief analysis of Mr. Bruce Foote's report on the various
auriferous tracts. The central group of auriferous rocks.

The west-central group.

The western group. Expects that many other old abandoned workings
will be discovered in the jungly tracts.

An inexhaustible supply of beautiful porphyry near Seringapatam
and close to a railway.

CHAPTER VIII.--CASTE.

Valuable to rural populations.

My inquiry limited to its rural and practical effects on life.

Its moral effects as regards the connection of the sexes.

Its value in limiting the use of alcohol.

Morality in Manjarabad superior to that of England.

Widows may contract a kind of marriage. The value of caste in
socially segregating inferior from superior races.

The mental value of the separation caused by caste.

The separation caused by caste has not hindered advancement
amongst the rural population. The Coorgs an instance of this.

Disadvantages of caste as regards town populations.

Instances of the evils of caste amongst the higher classes in the
towns.

Inquiry as to how far caste has acted beneficially in opposing
the existing interpretation of Christianity.

Worthlessness of pure dogmas when adopted by a degraded people.

Native Christians readily revert to devil worship in cases of
danger or sickness.

Native Christians neither better nor worse than the low-classes
from which they are usually drawn. Experience of the Abbe Dubois.

The upper class peasantry having to give up caste would be
injured by being converted.

The town population would not be injured by conversion.

Causes of the outcry against caste.

Its alleged tendencies.

The way to retain the good and lessen the evil of caste.

To become a Christian our missionaries compel the entire
abandonment of caste. Their version of Christianity wisely
rejected.

Mischievous action of our missionaries as regards caste. Their
erroneous views a bar to the progress of Christianity.

Bishop Heber's "Letter on Caste."

Bishop Wilson's fatal "Circular" requiring absolute abandonment
of caste by Christians.

Secession of native Christians in consequence of the "Circular."
Erroneous views contained in the Report of the Madras
Commissioners.

Views of the Tanjore missionaries as regards caste.

Mr. Schwart