Produced by Stephen Hope, Joseph Cooper, Leonard Johnson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Notes This ebook is a set of two volumes. The Table of Contents for Part II is copied to follow the Table of Contents of Part I. This seems to make the book more accessible. The Table of Contents of Part II is also located at its original location. FROM SEA TO SEA From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel By Rudyard Kipling COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1913 Copyright, 1899, 1907, By RUDYARD KIPLING. PREFACE In these two volumes I have got together the bulk of the special correspondence and occasional articles written by me for the _Civil and Military Gazette_ and the _Pioneer_ between 1887-1889. I have been forced to this action by the enterprise of various publishers who, not content with disinterring old newspaper work from the decent seclusion of the office files, have in several instances seen fit to embellish it with additions and interpolations. RUDYARD KIPLING. CONTENTS OF PART I LETTERS OF MARQUE I PAGE Of the Beginning of Things. Of the Taj and the Globe-trotter. The Young Man from Manchester and Certain Moral Reflections 3 II Shows the Charm of Rajputana and of Jeypore, the City of the Globe-trotter. Of its Founder and its Embellishment. Explains the Use and Destiny of the Stud-bred, and fails to explain Many More Important Matters 10 III Does not in Any Sort describe the Dead City of Amber, but gives Detailed Information about a Cotton-Press 18 IV The Temple of Mahadeo and the Manners of Such as see India. The Man by the Water-troughs and his Knowledge. The Voice of the City and what it said. Personalities and the Hospital. The House Beautiful of Jeypore and its Builders 25 V Of the Sordidness of the Supreme Government on the Revenue Side; and of the Palace of Jeypore. A Great King's Pleasure-house, and the Work of the Servants of State 33 VI Showing how her Majesty's Mails went to Udaipur and fell out by the Way 41 VII Touching the Children of the Sun and their City, and the Hat-marked Caste and their Merits, and a Good Man's Works In the Wilderness 50 VIII Divers Passages of Speech and Action whence the Nature, Arts, and Disposition of the King and his Subjects may be observed 62 IX Of the Pig-drive which was a Panther-killing, and of the Departure to Chitor 70 X