Kipling's India . using a beer bottle for aflute, Mulvaney impersonated the god Krishna beforethe worshipful, credulous gaze of the women, and thusescaped from the temple. Now the train speeds through Bengal toward Cal-cutta, and the climate and the scenery change com-pletely. The air is heavy and moist, and fragrant withthe flowers and spicy weeds of the tropical nature riots in luxuriance of growth and loveliness ofcolour, and the forests on both sides of the track are wideand deep with a vast amount of tangled to the east are the beautiful wooded mountains ofAss
Kipling's India . using a beer bottle for aflute, Mulvaney impersonated the god Krishna beforethe worshipful, credulous gaze of the women, and thusescaped from the temple. Now the train speeds through Bengal toward Cal-cutta, and the climate and the scenery change com-pletely. The air is heavy and moist, and fragrant withthe flowers and spicy weeds of the tropical nature riots in luxuriance of growth and loveliness ofcolour, and the forests on both sides of the track are wideand deep with a vast amount of tangled to the east are the beautiful wooded mountains ofAssam where, among the Garo Hills, Kala Nag {TheJungle Book) carried little Toomai to the elephantdance. Off in the west are the Seonee Hills, the home ofMowgli {The Jungle Booh) and his wolf brothers, whoconquered Tabaqui, the cowardly jackal, and ShereKhan, the wicked, man-eating tiger, and years laterdrove at their will the guilty Abdul Gafur and the Nil-ghai, and taught Gisborne of the Woods and Forests and [166]. Copyright by \ Underwoo-l, N. V. THE SHWE DAGON PAGODA In The Song of the Cities, Rangoon greets Eng-land witli the words, Hail, Mother. Do they call me rich in trade?Little care I. hut hear the shorn priest watch my silk-clad lovers, man by maid,Laugh neath my Sliwe Dagon. THE OLDEST LAND MuUer, his Chief, strange secrets of The Rukh {ManyInventions). Not many miles from the Seonee Hills are the SatpuraHills, the scrubby, tigerish country, where JohnChinn, the Second (The Tomb of his Ancestors), theyoung Subaltern whom the Bhils believed to be the rein-carnation of his own grandfather, brought his * heredi-tary influence to bear in vaccinating the frightenedcommunity; and by shooting his beautiful tiger horse,put a stop to the ghostly night rides which had soterrorized the little black people of the hills. Calcutta, lying on the sullen, un-English stream^he Hooghly, was, until the recentcEange to Delhi, thecapital of British India. To enter Cal
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