ed me
the Garments of the Ellewomen 130

XXXV

How I struck Chicago, and how Chicago struck me. Of
Religion, Politics, and Pig-sticking, and the Incarnation
of the City among Shambles 139

XXXVI

How I found Peace at Musquash on the Monongahela 154

XXXVII

An Interview with Mark Twain 167

THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT

I

A Real Live City 185

II

The Reflections of a Savage 191

III

The Council of the Gods 199

IV

On the Banks of the Hugli 208

V

With the Calcutta Police 217

VI

The City of Dreadful Night 223

VII

Deeper and Deeper Still 233

VIII

Concerning Lucia 240

AMONG THE RAILWAY FOLK

I

A Railway Settlement 249

II

The Shops 257

III

Vulcan's Forge 266

THE GIRIDIH COAL-FIELDS

I

On the Surface 275

II

In the Depths 284

III

The Perils of the Pits 291

PART I

LETTERS OF MARQUE

LETTERS OF MARQUE

I

OF THE BEGINNING OF THINGS. OF THE TAJ AND THE GLOBE-TROTTER. THE YOUNG
MAN FROM MANCHESTER AND CERTAIN MORAL REFLECTIONS.

NOV.-DEC., 1887

Except for those who, under compulsion of a sick certificate, are flying
Bombaywards, it is good for every man to see some little of the great
Indian Empire and the strange folk who move about it. It is good to
escape for a time from the House of Rimmon--be it office or
cutchery--and to go abroad under no more exacting master than personal
inclination, and with no more definite plan of travel than has the
horse, escaped from pasture, free upon the countryside. The first result
of such freedom is extreme bewilderment, and the second reduces the
freed to a state of mind which, for his sins, must be the norm