Life and work in India; an account of the conditions, methods, difficulties, results, future prospects and reflex influence of missionary labor in India, especially in the Punjab mission of the United Presbyterian Church of North America . ich they get is of the mostcordial character and soon they feel fully installed as regular membersof the missionary household. Should the party land at Calcutta or Karachi, instead of Bombay,they would meet with other objects of interest at the port of entry;and, on their journey into the interior, which in either case v/ould bealso wholly by rail, they woul
Life and work in India; an account of the conditions, methods, difficulties, results, future prospects and reflex influence of missionary labor in India, especially in the Punjab mission of the United Presbyterian Church of North America . ich they get is of the mostcordial character and soon they feel fully installed as regular membersof the missionary household. Should the party land at Calcutta or Karachi, instead of Bombay,they would meet with other objects of interest at the port of entry;and, on their journey into the interior, which in either case v/ould bealso wholly by rail, they would pass through different towns andscenes; but on the whole their impression of the country would bemuch the same. Byway of Karachi, however, 173 miles would besaved in the sea-journey and 400 miles in the railway ride; while tendays on the sea and a {tw hours on land would be lost were Calcuttamade the port of entry, * They will pass through Suiat, Baroda, Ahmedabad, Ajmere, Jeypore, Rewari,Delhi, Meerut, Aniritsar and Lahore. The newly-opened railway from Rewari, byIlissar and Fiiozpur, to Lahore shortens the journey 186 miles, but travel by that»oute prevents passengers from seeing Delhi and Amritsar. WESTERN AND OTHER ROUTES 17. ORIENTAL HARBOR. Missionaries may go from America to India by a westward route,crossing the Pacific Ocean and traveling by way of Yokohama, Japan,and Hong Kong, China. Intliat case they will take passageon a vessel of the Occidental andOriental Line at San Franciscoor on one of the steamers of theBritish Canadian Line at Van-couver, but they will changelines and steamers at Hong Kong,and may stop for a time also, ifthey so desire, in Japan. Thisroute brings the traveler toMadras or Calcutta, whence hemakes his way inland as alreadydescribed. The distance b\water from New York to Karachivia Liverpool, Gibraltar andSuez is 9200 miles. The dis-tance from San Francisco to Calcutta, on the eastern side of India,is about 9900 miles; and from Vancouver, 50
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