LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE View from the Tiger Gate in Palitana Frontispiece An Indian Decorative Design 1 Aden from the Arab Cemetery 2 Constantinople at the End of the Seventeenth Century .... 7 Queen Elizabeth knighting Sir Francis Drake on board the " Golden Hind " at Deptford, April 4, 1581 ... . . . . . 9 The Moghul Mosque at Fathpur-Sikri .16 Boats on the Persian Gulf 20 The Hugli River at Barrackpur 24 The Old East India House (1726-1796) 28 Bombay in 1773 31 Bird's-eye View of Trincomali 37 A Street Scene in Bombay 41 Sivaji on the March 43 The Lake of Utakamand in the Nilgiri Hills, Southern India ... 49 Peasants drawing Water 54 A Cart at Madras 56 Matharan, a Hill-station near Bombay in Western India .... 58 The Great Temple of Boro-Budur in Java 64 The Old East India House (1796-1858) .67 The Nizam's Capital, Haidarabad 73 A Corner of the Divan-i-Khas at Amber .76 Arms of the New East India Company 81 The Great Temple at Rangoon . ........ 85 A Water Scene near Garrett, Java . 87 A Pagoda at Pondicherri , . 92 Mandhata Island in the Narbada River 97 The Colombo Breakwater, Ceylon 105 A Scene in Pondicherri .110 The Main Gateway of the Temple at Tanjore 115 The Rock of Trichinopoli 119xvii
