From Edinburgh to India Burmah

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From Edinburgh to India & Burmah, by

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Title: From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
Author: William G. Burn Murdoch
Release Date: September 24, 2007 [EBook #22749]
Language: English
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FROM EDINBURGH TO INDIA AND BURMAH
[Illustration: Ayah and Child]
FROM EDINBURGH TO INDIA & BURMAH

BY W. G. BURN MURDOCH
Author of "From Edinburgh to the Antarctic," "A Procession of the Kings of Scotland," etc.

WITH TWENTY-FOUR FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR FROM PAINTINGS BY THE AUTHOR
LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LTD. NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
TO ST. C. C.

Contents
CHAP. I
Introducing these Digressions. Point of Departure. Edinburgh Street Scenes. Flying Impressions from the Train to LONDON.
Street Scenes there -- The Park and Regent Street. The People in the Streets. Our Royalties gone, and Loyalty -- going. Piccadilly Circus by Night, and Mount Street. pp. 1-8
CHAP. II
London to Tilbury, and the Platform at Victoria Station. The Embarkation on a P. & O. A Bugle Call. The luxury of being at sea. The Bay, and "Spun Yarns" on to 9-18
CHAP. III
Orpheus and the Argo and the Sirens in heavy weather. Down the Portugese Coast. High Art in the Engine-Room. Our People going East. A Blustery Day, and the Straits of Gibraltar. Gib and Spain, and "Poor Barbara." 19-26
CHAP. IV
A Blue Day at Sea, and Castles in Spain. A Fire Alarm, and A Dummy Dinner. The Beautiful French Lady. Marseilles and the Crowd on the Wharf. Bouillabaisses, and Réjane, and Cyrano, etc., and the head of a Serang for a tail-piece. 27-34
CHAP. V
About the Crowd on Board, and the discomfort of a voyage first class -- British types -- Reflections on the Deck and on the Sea -- of Sky, and People, and of things in general. A P. & O. yarn, Old Junk, or Chestnut. Respectability and Art. It gets warm -- The Punkah Infliction. Egypt in Sight, and the Nile Water.
Port Said and its Inhabitants -- Jock Furgusson and Ors. Corsica, Sardinia, Lipari Islands, Stromboli, Crete, and The Acts of the Apostles. 35-45
CHAP. VI
The saddest thing in Egypt -- Dancing in the Canal, and the Search-light on the Desert -- The fizzling hot blue Red Sea, and digressions about rose-red Italian wine, & Ulysses, and Callum Bhouie, and Uisquebaugh. 46-53
CHAP. VII
Is still about the Red Sea -- "The Barren Rocks of Aden," and small talk about small events on board -- a fancy dress dance, and sports, and so on to BOMBAY. 54-62
CHAP. VIII
Is -- without apologies -- of first impressions of India; and about the landing and entertainments of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales -- Great people and little people, and their affairs; Royal Receptions to snake-charmers -- Illuminations, Gun-firing, and the Bands playing God save the King -- Edward the --? 63-74
CHAP. IX
This chapter continues to deal with splendid Royal Shows, and there is the precis of a dream of a Prince and an A.D.C., who correct the Abuses of the Privileges of the Royal Academies. 75-84
CHAP. X
And this is about the arrival of Lord Minto, and the departure of Lord Curzon, and the Tomasha connected therewith; Vice-regal Receptions, and Processions, and more band playing, and gun-firing. 85-101
CHAP. XI
Chronicles small beer -- things about books and little Indian beasts and natives, and there is another digression to the subject of "English v. British Union, and the Imperial Idea," and a sail over the Bay with a piratical (looking) crew, to the caves of Elephanta. 102-111
CHAP. XII
Is a somewhat lengthy drawn-out chapter about a train journey from Bombay up the Western Ghats, and down south on the Deccan (Dekkan) Tableland to Dharwar -- Rather a "carpet-bag chapter," to quote Professor Masson. 112-122
CHAP. XIII
Dharwar. My Brother's Bungalow. Life in a small Station. The Club. Duck-shooting 123-135
CHAP. XIV
A letter on the subject of DUCK -- And a Cholera Goddess. 136-144 CHAP. XV
Last evening at Dharwar, then notes in the train south to Bangalore. 145-149
CHAP. XVI
Is of notes and sketches about things you see in Bangalore. 150-156
CHAP. XVII
Is of a long journey for a small shoot -- Life on the Railway Line, and a letter about SNIPE.
Our day's shoot is cut in two by the Royal Procession, and we go to the Embassy, then to jail, and make a picture of the Bazaar by lamplight, and discourse on the subject of music with the Maharajah of Mysore. 157-173
CHAP. XVIII
Is about the Maharajah's Palace at Mysore -- To Seringapatam in Trollies -- Remarks about