Chapter I: 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

A Little of the History of Chitor, and the Malpractices of
a She-elephant 78

XI

Proves conclusively the Existence of the Dark Tower
visited by Childe Rolande, and of "Bogey" who frightens
Children 88

XII

Contains the History of the Bhumia of Jhaswara, and the
Record of a Visit to the House of Strange Stories.
Demonstrates the Felicity of Loaferdom, which is the
Veritable Companionship of the Indian Empire, and proposes
a Scheme for the Better Officering of Two Departments 100

XIII

A King's House and Country. Further Consideration of the
Hat-marked Caste 113

XIV

Among the Houyhnhnms 124

XV

Treats of the Startling Effect of a Reduction in Wages and
the Pleasures of Loaferdom. Paints the State of the Boondi
Road and the Treachery of Ganesh of Situr 134

XVI

The Comedy of Errors and the Exploitation of Boondi. The
Castaway of the Dispensary and the Children of the
Schools. A Consideration of the Shields of Rajasthan and
Other Trifles 144

XVII

Shows that there may be Poetry in a Bank, and attempts to
show the Wonders of the Palace of Boondi 158

XVIII

Of the Uncivilised Night and the Departure to Things
Civilised. Showing how a Friend may keep an Appointment
too well 171

XIX

Comes back to the Railway, after Reflections on the
Management of the Empire; and so Home again, with Apology
to All who have read thus far 180

FROM SEA TO SEA

I

Of Freedom and the Necessity of using her. The Motive and
the Scheme that will come to Nothing. A Disquisition upon
the Otherness of Things and the Torments of the Damned 193

II

The River of the Lost Footsteps and the Golden Mystery
upon its Banks. The Iniquity of Jordan. Shows how a Man
may go to the Shway Dagon Pagoda and see it not and to
the Pegu Club and hear too much. A Dissertation on Mixed
Drinks 202

III

The City of Elephants which is governed by the Great God
of Idleness, who lives on the Top of a Hill. The History
of Three Great Discoveries and the Naughty Children of
Iquique 214

IV

Showing how I came to Palmiste Island and the Place of
Paul and Virginia, and fell Asleep in a Garden. A
Disquisition on the Folly of Sight-seeing 223

V

Of the Threshold of the Far East and the Dwellers thereon.
A Dissertation upon the Use of the British Lion 233

VI

Of the Well-dressed Islanders of Singapur and their
Diversions; proving that All Stations are exactly Alike.
Shows how One Chicago Jew and an American Child can poison
the Purest Mind 240

VII

Shows how I arrived in China and saw entirely through the
Great Wall and out upon the Other Side 247

VIII

Of Jenny and her Friends. Showing how a Man may go to see
Life and meet Death there. Of the Felicity of Life and the
Happiness of Corinthian Kate. The Woman and the Cholera 259

IX

Some Talk with a Taipan and a General: proves in what
Manner a Sea Picnic may be a Success 268

X

Shows how I came to Goblin Market and took a Scunner at it
and cursed the Chinese People. Shows further how I
initiated all Hong-Kong into our Fraternity 281

XI

Of Japan at Ten Hours' Sight, containing a Complete
Account of the Manners and Customs of its People, a
History of its Constitution, Products, Art, and
Civilisation, and omitting a Tiffin in a Tea-house with
O-Toyo 291

XII

A Further Consideration of Japan. The Inland Sea and Good
Cookery. The Mystery of Passports and Consulates and
Certain Other Matters 305

XIII

The Japanese Theatre and the Story of the Thunder Cat.
Treating also of the Quiet Places and the Dead Man in the
Street 313

XIV

Explains in what Manner I was taken to Venice in the Rain
and climbed into a Devil Fort; a Tin-pot Exhibition and a
Bath. Of the Maiden and the Boltless Door, the Cultivator
and his Fields, and the Manufacture of Ethnological
Theories at Railroad Speed. Ends with Kioto 323

XV

Kioto, and how I fell in Love with the Chief Belle there
after I had conferred with Certain China Merchants who
trafficked in Tea. Shows further how, in a Great Temple, I
broke the Tenth Commandment in Fifty-three Places and
bowed down before Kano and a Carpenter. Takes me to
Arashima 337

XVI

The Party in the Parlour who played Games. A Complete
History of All Modern Japanese Art; a Survey of the Past
and a Prophecy of the Future, arranged and composed in the
Kioto Factories 352

XVII

Of the Nature of the Tokaido and Japanese Railway
Construction. One Traveller explains the Life of the
Sahib-Log, and Another the Origin of Dice. Of the Babies
in the Bath Tub and the Man in D. T. 363

XVIII

Concerning a Hot-water Tap, and Some General Conversation 375

XIX

The Legend of Nikko Ford and the Story of the Avoidance of
Misfortune 386

XX

Shows how I grossly libelled the Japanese Army, and edited
a Civil and Military Gazette which is not in the least
Trustworthy 396

XXI

Shows the Similarity between the Babu and the Japanese.
Contains the Earnest Outcry of an Unbeliever. The
Explanation of Mr. Smith of California and Elsewhere.
Takes me on Board Ship after Due Warning to those who
follow 411

XXII

Shows how I came to America before My Time and was much
shaken in Body and Soul 423

XXIII

How I got to San Francisco and took Tea with the Natives
there 436

XXIV

Shows how through Folly I assisted at a Murder and was
Afraid. The Rule of the Democracy and the Despotism of the
Alien 451

CONTENTS OF PART II

FROM SEA TO SEA

XXV PAGE

Tells how I dropped into Politics and the Tenderer
Sentiments. Contains a Moral Treatise on American Maidens
and an Ethnological One on the Negro. Ends with a Banquet
and a Type-writer 3

XXVI

Takes me through Bret Harte's Country and to Portland with
"Old Man California." Explains how Two Vagabonds became
Homesick through looking at Other People's Houses 18

XXVII

Shows how I caught Salmon in the Clackamas 33

XXVIII

Takes me from Vancouver to the Yellowstone National Park 50

XXIX

Shows how Yankee Jim introduced me to Diana of the
Crossways on the Banks of the Yellowstone and how a German
Jew said I was no True Citizen. Ends with the Celebration
of the 4th of July and a Few Lessons therefrom 62

XXX

Shows how I entered Mazanderan of the Persians and saw
Devils of Every Colour, and Some Troopers. Hell and the
Old Lady from Chicago. The Captain and the Lieutenant 73

XXXI

Ends with the Canyon of the Yellowstone. The Maiden from
New Hampshire--Larry--"Wrap-up-his-Tail"--Tom--The Old
Lady from Chicago--and a Few Natural Phenomena--including
One Briton 88

XXXII

Of the American Army and the City of the Saints. The
Temple, the Book of Mormon, and the Girl from Dorset. An
Oriental Consideration of Polygamy 106

XXXIII

How I met Certain People of Importance between Salt Lake
and Omaha 120

XXXIV

Across the Great Divide; and how the Man Gring showed me
the Garments of the Ellewomen 130

XXXV

How I struck Chicago, and how Chicago struck me. Of
Religion, Politics, and Pig-sticking, and the Incarnation
of the City among Shambles 139

XXXVI

How I found Peace at Musquash on the Monongahela 154

XXXVII

An Interview with Mark Twain 167

THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT

I

A Real Live City 185

II

The Reflections of a Savage 191

III

The Council of the Gods 199

IV

On the Banks of the Hugli 208

V

With the Calcutta Police 217

VI

The City of Dreadful Night 223

VII

Deeper and Deeper Still 233

VIII

Concerning Lucia 240

AMONG THE RAILWAY FOLK

I

A Railway Settlement 249

II

The Shops 257

III

Vulcan's Forge 266

THE GIRIDIH COAL-FIELDS

I

On the Surface 275

II

In the Depths 284

III

The Perils of the Pits 291