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ion, and we go to the Embassy, then to jail, and make a picture of the Bazaar by lamplight, and discourse on the subject of music with the Maharajah of Mysore. 157-173 CHAP. XVIII Is about the Maharajah's Palace at Mysore -- To Seringapatam in Trollies -- Remarks about the Siege, mosquitoes, and landscape -- Back to Mysore, and Dinner on the Track. 174-185 CHAP. XIX Channapatna Village, and a free tip to artists -- Our Camp in a railway siding in "beechen green, and shadows numberless" -- Thoughts of Madras and the Ocean again -- How we rule India, and _ghosts_ on the railway track -- A Bank in India, and about cooking, and the Indian squirrel or Chip-monk -- The Maharajah -- Red Chupprassies -- The Museum, and Ants, etc., etc. 186-196 CHAP. XX _En route_ for Madras -- A plague inspection in the grey of the morning -- Madras and blue southern ocean, through Tamarisks, and the silvery Cooum and fishermen seine-netting on the strand -- The Race-course -- The Old Fort of the Company -- Dinner at the Fort, and the people we saw there; and of those we remembered who once lived there -- A Digression from Crows to ancient Naval Architecture, and the new Order of Precedence. 197-209 CHAP. XXI A delightful Fishing Day -- Surf Rafts. -- Making Calls -- Boating on the Adyar River -- A Sunday in Madras Churches, and on a Surf Raft -- End of the Year. 210-220 CHAP. XXII 1st JAN. 1906. -- Call at Government House -- The Fort again -- More about Surf Rafts -- Lord Ampthill's Government House Reception -- Nabobs and nobodies. -- Fireworks and pretty dresses, and the band playing. 221-226 CHAP. XXIII Out of Madras, and on the blue sea again, bound West to Burmah -- Packed with Natives -- An unsavoury Passage Ruskin's English and Native Essayists. 227-231 CHAP. XXIV GOLDEN BURMAH, and the Golden Pagoda -- a gymkhana dance -- Sketching at the Pagoda entrance -- Various races -- Bachelor's quarters -- The Shan Camp -- Princesses and C
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