The Indians on board lived very much in cliques, just as they do in their own country, and with few exceptions there was but little general interchange of ideas amongst themselves. Curiously enough, the connecting link was to be found in the English population on board, who mixed with them all good-humouredly. That it is possible for East and West to meet on equal terms, and to dine in the same room if not at the same table, and to get on happily in daily intercourse, was proved by the pleasant way in which, within the narrow limits of a ship's second-class quarters, everybody managed to pull together. It was also a satisfactory feature of this medley of races and religions that the only person for whom there was no place, and who finally got sent to Coventry, was an Englishwoman who professed to be a theosophist. INDEX Affection, 15 Agricultural experiments, 329 Agriculture, 328; colleges of, 328 Animals, 176 Antelope, 177 Anthony, St., 245 Ants, 191; white, 191 Architecture, Indian view of, 17 Art, 60; degenerating, 60; Christian, 64 Artists, Indian, 63 Ascetics, 3, 196, 199; maxims for, 166 Band, native, 102, 140; English, 102; "Europe," 102 Baptism, 23, 338; Nonconformist laxity concerning, 5, 86 Barbel tree, 197 Barber, 271 Bath, 110, 290, 293, 341 Beasts, wild, 170 Bees, 190 Beetles, 189 Beggars, feasts to, 12; Hindu religious, 201 Bells, bullocks', 324 Benson, Father, 156 Bhumya, his conversion, 338 Bible, quoted by Hindus, 4 _Bile polar_, festival for cattle, 245 _Bin_, musical instrument, 101 Birds, 185, 187; scaring, 271 Bishop, Indian, 93 Blacksmiths, 271 Blasting, 261 Blister beetle, 189 Bookbinding, 150 Books in India, 143, 148; prayer, 144, 149; price of, 149 Boundary stones, 221, 253 Boy, Indian, 161, 163, 168, 192 Brahmins, 84, 85, 164, 265; ladies, 23; thread, 122 Brain-fever bird, 185 Brass, its polish, 62 Bread, 109 Bribes, 296; on the railway, 296; in trade, 298 Buffalo, 179; the dead, 71 Bugs, 192 Bullocks, 324, 325; drawing water, 98 Bungalow, 292, 297 Burial, 71, 268 Butterflies, 195 Camels, 181 Card-playing, 117 Caretaker, the faithful, 28; his contentment, 29; his prayers, 30 Carpenters, 271 Carpets, 78 Caste, 167, 210, 278; breach of, 168, 237, 341 Catholic Church, 88, 96 Cattle, festival for, 245 Cemetery, Christian, 263; consecrated, 267; Cross, 267; Hindu, 173 Chairs, 56 Character, Indian, 24, 90, 157, 249, 254, 289; shallow, 158, 160, 166 Cheating labourers, 26, 30, 31 Choir-boys, 104 _Chowdi_, 215; sleeping in, 314 Christian art, 64, 65 Christian Indians, 5, 15, 209, 226; their hospitality, 13, 43; honesty, 242; respect for their mother, 14; dress for, 41; their expenses, 42; their unpunctuality, 51; their meals, 56, 236; _panchayat_, 68; their happiness, 115; their prayer books, 144, 149; houses, 254, 255 Church at Yerandawana, 19-23, 126, 155, 282 Clarke, Sir George, 103