Its multitude of chapels, each with its image in stone of the lingam, or phallus 119 Its central image of a bull, the favorite animal of Siva 119 Its tower, or gopura, is the grandest in India 119 Its sculptures of gods and goddesses wonderfully realistic 119 Its appurtenances tawdry, childish, and immoral 120 Yet Tanjore was the home, and is the tomb, of Schwartz, the first English missionary to India 120 The raja's library of Oriental manuscripts 121 Madura, the center of Dravidian worship, one hundred miles farther south 121 Temple built about two great shrines for the god Siva and his wife Minakshi 121 Five great pyramidal towers and a court eight hundred and thirty by seven hundred and thirty feet 121 The "Golden Lily Tank," and "The Hall of a Thousand Pillars" 122 Dark alcoves and a festival night, the acme of Hindu religion 122 The palace of Tirumala and his Teppa Kulam tank, one thousand feet on each side 123 The noblest sight of Madura is its American Congregational Mission 123 Under Dr. J. X. Miller, its schools and seminaries are revolutionizing southern India 124 XII. TWO WEEKS IN CEYLON 125-135 Ceylon not a part of India, but a Crown Colony of Britain 127 Colombo, a European city, and English the best means of communication 127 Buddhism, crowded out of India, made its way southward 127 A sacred tooth of Buddha is preserved at Kandy 127 Wesleyan Methodist College and English Baptist College at Colombo 128 The Ananda College, a theosophical institution, unfavorable to Christianity 128 A refuge in Nurwara Eliya, six thousand two hundred feet above the sea 129 Switzerland without its ruggedness, and terraces of tea-plants lining the approaches thither 129 Forests of rubber make a sea of verdure 130