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 States, 22; importance of exports to United States, 23 Suez Canal, antiquity of project, 3, 4; Persian oracle's warning against, 5; personages who had considered, 5; to pay Egyptian treasury part of proceeds, 6, 15; Ismail's interest in scheme, 10; perpetuation of names of Egyptian rulers, 11; simplicity of construction and cost of, 12; international character of, 12; Disraeli's purchase of control for Great Britain, 15; physical statistics of, 16; tariff of, 16, 17; value to world's commerce, 17; statistics of tonnage and income, 17; average daily use of, 18; European shippers' choice of canals, 20; shareholders in no fear of Panama competition, 29 Taj Mahal, tomb of Arjamand, wife of Shah Jahan, and world's most exquisite building, 168-184; cost of, 173; burial-place of Shah Jahan, 179; restorations by British government, 183 Tea, cultivation in Ceylon, 122, 125 Widowhood, curse of Indian, 224 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: In the original text, contractions had a space at the word break, e.g. "would n't, does n't, I 'm". In this ebook, such spaces have been removed. Pg. 70, added missing period (a stove-polish advertisement.) Pg. 315, inserted missing period. (growing surprise to the world.) Index entry "America, interest in Panama....", stated page number was "14" which is a blank page. Page number changed to "16" where content appears to match. Index entry "China, America and Chinese trade", stated page numbers were "312-314" but "312" is a blank page. Page number "312" changed to "310" where content appears to match.