Part 15
Nikko, the Japanese city of temples, 16-21; eighth century Buddhist temple, 17; Sacred Red Bridge, 17; imperial tombs, 17-19; school pilgrimages, 19; famous cryptomeria avenue to Imaichi, 20-21
Nile, sailing down the, 156-160; importance of river to Egypt, 156; ancient method of irrigation by shadouf, 157-158; poor pay for hard work, 158; prevalence of eye diseases, 159; squalid homes of the natives, 160; beauty of views along the Nile, 160
Osaka, Japan's chief manufacturing city, 29; Hideyoshi's castle, 29
Parsees, importance in municipal life of Bombay, 129; religion that of Zoroaster, 129-130; gifts by rich Parsee merchants, 131; quaint marriage customs, 132; towers of silence where dead are exposed, 133-135
Pyramids, among the oldest human work on earth, 161-163; size and cost of construction, 162-163; ascent of Gizeh, 163; features of the Sphinx, 164; rock tombs of Sakkara, 164
Raffles, Sir Stamford, the maker of Singapore and founder of great Malayan museum, 81
Rangoon, Burma's largest city, 89-92; elephants piling teak, 89-90; Shwe Dagon Pagoda, center of the Buddhist faith in Orient, 90-91; splendid decoration of shrines, 91-92
Shah Jehan, the greatest builder among the Mogul Emperors of India, who immortalized his name by erecting the Taj Mahal, 112
Singapore, gateway to the Far East, 80-88; humidity of atmosphere, 80; world's largest dry dock, 81; Sir Stamford Raffles, 81; great mixture of races, 81-82; traits of the Malay, 83; importance of Chinese, 84-85; night scenes in Malay and Chinese quarters, 85-87; large opium dens, 87; fine botanical gardens, 88
Taj Mahal, the world's most beautiful building at Agra, India, 111-116; built by Shah Jehan as memorial to favorite wife, 112; cost in money and human life, 112; its perfect architecture, 114; lavish decoration, 115; restoration by Lord Curzon, 116
Thebes, tomb city of the ancient Egyptian kings, 150-155; desolate site across the Nile from Luxor, 150-151; electric-lighted tombs, 151; rock-hewn tomb of Rameses IV, 152; tombs of other monarchs, 152-153; only one contains royal mummy, 154; fine temple of Queen Hatasu, 153; the Ramessium, with largest statue found in Egypt, 154; Colossi of Memnon, 154; why one of the statues was musical, 155
Tokio, the Japanese capital, 10-15; its splendid parks, 11-13-14; imperial palace, 13; tombs of six shoguns, 14; night work in shops, 15
Wheeler, General, whose confidence in his native troops, cost the lives of all the garrison of Cawnpore, 109
Yokohama, much Europeanized Japanese city, 3; good tourist outfitting point, 4
AND SO ENDS THE CRITIC IN THE ORIENT, CONTAINING THE IMPRESSIONS OF GEORGE HAMLIN FITCH ON THE FIRST HALF OF HIS TRIP AROUND THE WORLD. PUBLISHED IN BOOK FORM BY PAUL ELDER & COMPANY AND SEEN THROUGH THEIR TOMOYE PRESS BY JOHN SWART DURING THE MONTH OF APRIL, MCMXIII, IN THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
Inconsistencies in the hyphenation of words retained. (hotfoot, hot-foot)
In the original text, captions of plates and illustrations did not have terminating punctuation except for the caption of Plate XXXVII. This caption had a terminating period which has been retained.
In the original text, italic typeface was used for the entire text and headings of the chapters "Introduction" and "The Best Results of Travel in the Orient". In the plaintext version of this ebook, the usual underscore markup has not been used to indicate italic type in these chapters. Elsewhere in the text, occasional words in italic typeface have been marked up with underscores.
Pg. 12, unusual spelling of "embassadors" retained.
Pg. 12, duplicated word "of" removed. (mansions of the Japanese")
Pg. 112, duplicated word "on" removed. (little trace on its walls)
Pg. 161, "hugh" changed to "huge". (as huge as the pyramid)
Index. In the original text, the last sub-item of an index entry did not end with any terminating punctuation except for the index entry "Lawrence, Sir Henry". This entry had a terminating period which has been retained.
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