Galle, Colombo, and Kandy. The Cocoanut Palm. The Cinnamon Gardens. Coffee Plantations. Perpetual Summer. Visit to Newera Ellia. The Christian Zeal of the Dutch. Great Outward Success. Collapse. Missions. Buddhist Temples. 205 CHAPTER XIX. _From 1859 to 1868._ Work at Benares. Increased Attention to the European Population. Visit to Cities in the North-West. Allahabad. Cawnpore. Lucknow. Incident on the Ganges. Visit to Delhi in 1861 on our Way to Kumaon. Visit to England, Return to India, and Appointment to Kumaon. 213 CHAPTER XX. _From 1868 to 1877. Kumaon._ _Its Scenery and Products._ A Sub-Himalayan Region. Scenery, Climate, and Products. New Products. Tea. Inhabitants, Hindus and Doms. Gods and Temples. Local Gods. Demons. The Character of the People. Want of Cleanliness. The Plague. History. Native Dynasties. The British Rule. Progress. Tea Planting. The Irrigation of the Bhabhur. Wild Beasts. Treaty with the Ghoorkhas. Modes of Travelling. Journey to the Pindaree Glacier. 232 CHAPTER XXI. _Almora Mission._ Schools. Female Education. The Leper Asylum. English Preaching. 252 CHAPTER XXII. _Ranee Khet._ Schools. Wooden House. Rain and Rats. Pioneer Work. The Erection of Buildings. Work among the English. Among Natives. Educated Young Men. Doms. Night School. Itineracy. A Hill Mela. Bageswar. 260 CHAPTER XXIII. _Habits and Condition of the Hill People._ Sanitary Regulations. _Yearly Visit to Nynee Tal._ The Missions of the American Episcopal Methodist Church. Retirement from the Indian Mission-field. Helpful Friends. Return to England. 279 CHAPTER XXIV. _The Missionary in India._ Extent and Variety of the Indian Field. The Greatness of the Missionary Office. The Contrast between Ministerial and Missionary Work. The Relations of Missionaries to each other, to their respective Societies, and to Missionaries of other Societies. Their Relation to Europeans. 289 CHAPTER XXV. _The Missionary in India (continued)._ The Mode of Living required by the Climate. Missionary Theology. The Radical Opposition of the Gospel to Heathenism. The Example of our Lord and His Apostles. Hindu and Buddhist Views of the Future. The Doctrine by which Mission Success has been achieved. The Necessity of Sin being considered in the adjustment of Doctrine. _In Memoriam._ 297 CHAPTER XXVI. _Native Christians._ Syrian Christians. The Descendants of Xavier's Converts. The Shanars in Travancore and Tinnevelly. _The Hills of Central and Eastern India._ The Kols and Santhals. _Bengal._ Krishnaghur and Backergunje. _The Presidency Cities._ The Social and Educational Standing of the Converts. _Northern India._ The Drummers in Native Regiments. The Waifs of Society. Pride in the Christian Name. Orphans and their Descendants. Converts of our Missions. Baptism sought from Wrong Motives. 307 CHAPTER XXVII.