This Is A New Release Of The Original 1912 Edition.

1912. With 63 illustrations. Mr. Shoemaker is a trained traveler. He has the time and the means to travel in luxury and he has developed his qualities as a keen observer by travels in various parts of the world. He possesses excellent descriptive powers and his pages are sprinkled liberally with humor; giving them a certain personal interest and charm that add to the attractiveness of his travel records. In this volume he describes his year's sojourn in the land of John Company. He has confined the text to those sections of India with which the public, American at least, is but little acquainted. Contents: The Outward Voyage; Oudeypour; Chitor; Jeypur and Gulta; Akbar's Town of Victory; The Seven Cities of Delhi; Benares; Buddha; The Snows; Amritsar and the Sikhs; Lahore; Punjab and Its History; Life in Peshawur; The Khyber Pass; The Journey to Kashmir; Life on a Bed of Roses; The Vale of Kashmir at Last; Srinagar; Merchants of Kashmir; River Life; Temple of Martand; Magnificent Shalimar; Last Days in the Vale; Departure from the Vale; The Hot Land; and Life on the Mooltan.

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II THE PLAGUE The Plague?The Means whereby it Spreads?Immunity of Europeans?When the Rats Begin to Die?The Belief of the Natives as to its Origin?Opinion of the Bombay Doctors?The Towers of Silence during the Pest?The Gathering of the Vultures even from Turkestan. IT is somewhat with fear and trembling that the traveller ventures into Southern India in these days of 1898,?not so much in fear of the plague as in dread of being quarantined in some impossible Indian village,?but if he is en route for Burma he must risk that, or waste three weeks in Ceylon waiting for a ship. So far this year, the pest has not broken out in the points to which we are going, Madura, Trichinopoly, Tanjore, and Madras, although there have been some few imported cases. It is, however, slowly creeping onward, and if it should enter Ceylon it would prove the total ruin of that island, as there would be no market for her tea. The pest does not, as a rule, attack Europeane. How it is carried from point to point is as yet a mystery. It is not epidemic but contagious. Many think that the mosquitoes are the vehicle, others lay it to the rats, and there is a premium offered forevery rat, dead or alive. Others believe that it is in the dust and mud and that the natives contract it through their feet. The wife of our Bombay consul suffered with it two years ago, and insists that she got it by inhaling the dust of the city. When one does succumb its work is short and sharp, and generally with one ending?death. Whole families have retired at -night apparently in perfect health, and have been found dead in the morning. Two years ago the people fled from Bombay by tens of thousands, and the population decreased from four hundred thousand to seventy thousand. The hotels were closed because there we...

Title: Quaint Corners of Ancient Empires: Southern India, Burma, and Manila ... Illustrated.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GEOGRAPHY & TOPOGRAPHY collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. Offering some insights into the study and mapping of the natural world, this collection includes texts on Babylon, the geographies of China, and the medieval Islamic world. Also included are regional geographies and volumes on environmental determinism, topographical analyses of England, China, ancient Jerusalem, and significant tracts of North America. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Shoemaker, Michael Myers; 1899. xix. 212 p.; 8 . 010057.h.27.