CHAPTER XVII.

BOMBAY.

The native Bombay a wonderful spectacle--Workshops, saleshops, opium dens, theatres, temples, mosques--The population, Mahrattas and Parsees--The modern city and the manufacturing quarter--The Parsee nose--Justice Telang, a Mahratta--The Bunya Caste--Tribhovan Das at home--View from the Malabar Hill--A Bunya wedding--Native theatres-- The Salvation Army--Across the harbor to Elephanta--The great cave-temple--Sculptured panels, the Hindu Trinity-- The human-divine life of Siva--Impressive effect of the whole--An opium den--Various sorts of “ecstasy” produced by these and other drugs--The proletariat at home--Music and conversation--Dream of a “United India”--Bombay at night--On the way to Aden--A calm and starlit ocean--A beautiful panorama. 299–324

_THE OLD ORDER AND THE NEW INFLUENCES._