ural beauty of, 108;
atrocities of a king of, 109;
British rule of, 110;
Peradeniya tropical garden, 110, 113, 114, 117;
executive seat of Ceylon's tea industry, 117, 118, 121

Kitchener, Viscount, commander-in-chief of Indian army, 218, 219

Macao, journey to Portuguese colony from Canton, 267;
pioneer European settlement in East, 272;
Eastern Monte Carlo, 272, 283-289;
political refuge, 274;
Camoens, 278-282

Manar, pearling-ground of Gulf of, 50;
advertisements announcing a fishery, 56, 57;
period of, 66;
scene on banks during a fishery, 76, 77;
profit of fishery, 87

Marichchikkaddi, pearl metropolis of, 58, 61, 62, 64, 65;
how reached from Colombo, 62;
population, 63;
fishing fleet, 71, 72;
scenes in camp and at kottu, 77, 78;
where oysters pass current as money, 79;
selling the oysters at auction, 79, 80, 81;
health of camp, 85;
illustration of white man's rule, 86, 87

Merchant Marine, necessity for creation of, 27;
American commercial supremacy without help of, 29

Panama Canal, antiquity of project, 4;
President Roosevelt's insistence for, 19;
use of, by South American shipping, 21;
drawing traffic from east of Singapore, 21;
vast Eastern area to be served by, 21;
destined to make America trade-arbiter of world, 23;
prediction of cost of construction and maintenance, 23;
question of annual tonnage, 24

Parsees, their home in Bombay, 126;
followers of Zoroaster, 127;
Towers of Silence and method of disposing of dead, 131, 132, 133

Pearls, Swedish, Chinese and Japanese methods of inducing pearl
formation, 55;
Indian and Cingalese expert dealers, 66;
Indian grandees chief buyers of, 88

Pearl-fishing, scene of, in Gulf of Manar, 50;
description of, 51, 56, 57;
Professor Hornell's theories, 52;
divers, 66, 69;
the shark-charmer, 70, 71, 72;
time of divers under water, 75, 76
scene on Manar banks, 76, 77
devices for stealing pearls, 79
process by which pearls are extracted from oysters, 81, 82

Penang, leading tin port of world, 227

Raffles, Sir Stamford, pioneer of Singapore, 227

Russia, friendship of Germany during war, 290-304;
benefit to have accompanied victory over Japan, 296

Said, viceroy, date of giving Suez concession, 6

Singapore, a turnstile of commerce, 227;
universal character of, 228

South America, use of Panama by carrying trade of, 21;
trifling imports from United Sta