Khetwadi castle, sequel to "Pork and mustard." volII . ulten brass image, or any other of his almostnumberless deities of wood, stone, clay, brass;brute creature, or creeping thing. If, by accident, your sweeper should leave hisbroom on the floor of your drawing room, andyou should request one of your high-caste Hin-du servants to remove it, he would take offence,would judge that you intended an outrageous,personal insult; and, in all probability, would leaveyour service. No high-caste native would evertouch a sweepers broom on any account, noteven with his foot. To strike a native with abroom
Khetwadi castle, sequel to "Pork and mustard." volII . ulten brass image, or any other of his almostnumberless deities of wood, stone, clay, brass;brute creature, or creeping thing. If, by accident, your sweeper should leave hisbroom on the floor of your drawing room, andyou should request one of your high-caste Hin-du servants to remove it, he would take offence,would judge that you intended an outrageous,personal insult; and, in all probability, would leaveyour service. No high-caste native would evertouch a sweepers broom on any account, noteven with his foot. To strike a native with abroom is considered to be the most outrageousand unpardonable insult that could possibly begiven. His caste is thus broken; and he ishumiliated and irretrievably disgraced. Thesweeper is in no danger of personal assault fromany other native. However angry with asweeper a native of higher caste may be, howevermuch he may wish to do him personal injury, hewill never kick or strike him. By so doing hewould of necessity defile himself, and break hisown CHAPTER III BOMBAY The city of Bombay covers the south-east endof Bombay Island, or Peninsula, bordering onBack Bay outside, and on the harbor island is eleven miles in length, and fromthree to four miles in breadth; it is now perman-ently connected, by causeways and break-waters,with Salsette Island and with the mainland. Thecity embraces an area of twenty-two squaremiles. Its harbor is considered to be one of thefinest in the world; having many islands, andbeing crowded with shipping. It has aboutfourteen miles of space in length, by five inbreadth; all of which is available for shippingpurposes. Bombay is a great metropolitan city, and moreEuropean in appearance than any other Indiancity. Bombay is not, however, one city only;but two. There is, first of all, the great Eur-opean Bombay; with its smooth, broad, beauti-fully paved streets, continuously lined withsplendid buildings, extensive tramway lines, tele-graph an
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