Ambir, old capital of Jeypore state, 166 America, interest in Suez canal as forerunner of Panama, 16; flag not represented by commercial vessel at Suez in generation, 18; President Roosevelt's insistence for Panama canal, 19; value of Oriental trade, 21, 22; cotton of wrought in England, 22; trifling exports of manufactured articles, 22; diminutive trade with South America, 22; desirability of trade extension in East, 23; government's tariff at Panama, 24; how to make Panama canal pay indirectly, 27; demand for creation of merchant marine, 27; to have 100,000,000 inhabitants when canal is completed, 28; commercial supremacy without merchant marine, 29; government's insistence on "open door" in China, 303; seeming indifference to Chinese trade, 310; waning cotton exports to China, 313, 314 Arabi, rebellion of, resulting in control of Egypt by Great Britain, 9; Kandy, place of his exile, 110 Arjamand, consort of Shah Jahan, for whom Taj Mahal was erected, 171 Benares, headquarters of Hindu religion, 185-202; burning ghat and cremations, 189-194; Monkey Temple, 196-200 Bombay, headquarters of Parsees, 126; a city gone sport-mad, 133, 134; race meeting at, 137, 138 important cotton port, 139 superb railway station, 139 Buddhism, Kandy the Mecca of the faith, 95; tenets of faith, 96, 97; reputed tooth of Buddha, 97, 98, 101; pilgrims to Kandy, 101, 102; cremation, 102 Calcutta, 205-219; Hooghly pilots, 206; Job Charnock, founder of, 209, 210; under Lord Curzon's viceroyship, 217, 218 Canals, no more inter-ocean canals possible, 4 Canton, unique and important commercial city, 244-266; strenuous and monopolistic guide, 249; street scenes and experiences, 250, 251; executions, 255; funeral procession, 256, 257; educational center, 257; educational examinations, 258, 259; "literary poles," 260, 263; boat-life on river front, 263, 264; leper village and boat toll, 266 Caste, Rodiya people of Ceylon, 103, 104, 107; British rule recognizes no distinctions of, 107; as seen in Bombay, 140; hereditary throughout India, 143; man servant who could not carry his own packages, 144, 145, 146 Ceylon, where "only man is vile," 30 Cingalese, 34, 44; area, population, and races, 44; England's conquest of, 47; railways, 47; exports, 48; elephant kraal, 48, 49; an island paradise, 50; the cadjan, 62, 63; tea as "king crop," 117; when coffee was chief crop, 121; details of tea cultivation, 122, 125