Travel Perspectives

339

I hd boy 13 yrs best sdt I ever had tl he died of plague Shaved me regly; gv hm razor Never used it; hired a man of caste whs duty was to shave

Castes idle, gd for nothing [???] hang on

mill labor Bombay 10 to [17?] rupees a mth

341

3 gen use 1 suicides a hospitals 1 family Mody

Mr. Bachelor

At [Tecumdsabad?] Brahmin girl 7 days old married

Little ^(10 yr old) girl in house [???] to wed 2 yrs bf to man 32 years

valuable jewelry

343 Calcutta

Rev.

msn outer India almst btr thn we cd wish

[crossed out text] faster than we [end crossed out text] we cn't [???] ths work

Blf in Hinduism becmg more & more fbl

Caste mst readjust

Brahminic pc visits Amca Absolved on return Laughs at rites

Son of a sweeper tchg Brhamins Lucknow Xtn clg

345

"Jo hua so hua" [crossed out word] so [end crossed out word] "what was to happen has happened"

"Jo/[crossed out word] hua [end crossed out word] ^(Hota) so hota" What is hpng was to hpen

"Kismet" Hindustani

If cut off arm or lose limb "Kismet."

Men wonded in [Kloharrun?] riots

347

Cotton (Bombay) [right margin note] ship poppy to Hong Kong, Shghai, [Kob?] [Lapl?] [end right margin note]

Sonstant stream "Kobe" (What Kobe mfr said) (ny) Better Blg: 11 or 12 [crossed out text] f bnd [end crossed out text] ^([tres?]) three feet high 15 or 16 if ht of linen bales [circled text] 400 lb bl leaves Bombay [end circled text]

1/2 [crossed out text] Kandy [end crossed out text] ^(candy) 3 [???] lbs [left margin circled note] 318 Khodh 359 Brach [end left margin circled note] [crossed out word] gd [end crossed out word] gn [indty?] 250R Kandy

Rain June to Sept then begn [???] Bengal nov (begin) Khand[crossed out letters] ish [end crossed out letters] ^(cish) [???] Jan Brach March Bharnag[crossed out letters] [illegible] [end crossed out letters] ^(ore) May

[Demd?] from [Kohn?] & [???] mks hgh pc Bmby

"half-pressed" 3 times size [crossed out number] 12 [end crossed out number] 10 irregullrs [???]

My [exp?] in 20 yrs as [???] agent, met only 2 inventors who were trained in college all rest trained in shops

Thk in terms of text bk instd of terms of work

349

Mr. J. Wallace Bombay orderg bales 12 ropes and [cabs?] re-pressed

8 1/2% [crossed out word] moist [end crossed out word] ^(moisture) then best state

Siniple press [crossed out words] at home [end crossed out words in conctn with [gins?]

Indns cm out of clg & Expect to get into sm offcl postn "when they can sit dn & tl others how to work"

Lying fd in all primtv peoples becs decit only [???[ of [???] Lie in wkmnshp as wl as language

Indn competn Reduce qualty instead of [crossed out word illegible] cost

Evy ^(great) natn has fst acq tech kn then [???] knwldg

Japans in my liftm sci kn but ctrs ago gd crftsmen

[crossed out words] [???] Thr are castes [end crossed out words] Cawnpore big [holdary?]

[right margin circled text] [???] [end right margin circled text]

[left margin vertical text] [???] 63 [end left margin vertical text]

[crossed out word] Bugw [end crossed out word] Bhagwat ghat resort of bathers, 200 bathers, a sht distc, a cholera corpse stranded & [crossed out] c [end crossed out] vultures tearing intestines

18 miles river traces of [???]

(Bombay plague 1897 people rushed away) (like rats fm [crossed out] [???] [end crossed out] skg ship)

351

Wallace Tch how to work sanitation (houseflies [???])

Explng to natives Campore First time anybody had been civil to them

Govt [crossed out] a [end crossed out] forced 25 gals per head per day; used 7 1/2 gals per day

Improvement Trust

Long Class livg lk rats, houses wtht windows or chimneys

(Fear comes out of dark supstn fears out of ignc)

353

Wallace Product [crossed out] wages [end crossed out] 1 to 3, 1 to 5 as [???]

[???] laborer at high wages can wk gd prdcts pay [???] both ways & beat Indn

12 hours a day new law

nothing but [crossed out text] [a ca for?] [end crossed out text] law will fc mfr to [???] [???] [???]

Tata mills (model mills) good ventilations, adqt but not excesv [???], [crossed out text] ba [end crossed out text] lk after [???] & [???] [???] [???] best,