From Sea to Sea, by Rudyard Kipling 1 From Sea to Sea, by Rudyard Kipling The Project Gutenberg EBook of From Sea to Sea, by Rudyard Kipling This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Author: Rudyard Kipling Release Date: June 25, 2010 [EBook #32977] From Sea to Sea, by Rudyard Kipling 2 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FROM SEA TO SEA *** Produced by Stephen Hope, Joseph Cooper, Leonard Johnson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://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 From Sea to Sea, by Rudyard Kipling 3 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 From Sea to Sea, by Rudyard Kipling 4 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 From Sea to Sea, by Rudyard Kipling 5 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 From Sea to Sea, by Rudyard Kipling 6 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 From Sea to Sea, by Rudyard Kipling 7 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 From Sea to Sea, by Rudyard Kipling 8 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 From Sea to Sea, by Rudyard Kipling 9 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, by Rudyard Kipling 10 FROM SEA TO SEA XXV PAGE Tells how I dropped into Politics and the Tenderer Sentiments.