. My life-work;. inai, and the lurid mountains of first visit of a Bible student to Bible lands is a kind of reve-lation. Ancient history gives up its dead ; the past stands re-vealed before you. I had no doubt then, and I have none now, of the substantialtruth of the Exodus from Egypt, despite a higher criticism which resolves all ancient history into myths ! Nothing strikesone more in the East than the persistence of historic tradition,and it is notable that all the early history recorded in the Penta-teuch is supported by local Arab tradition to this day. We hada delightful voyag
. My life-work;. inai, and the lurid mountains of first visit of a Bible student to Bible lands is a kind of reve-lation. Ancient history gives up its dead ; the past stands re-vealed before you. I had no doubt then, and I have none now, of the substantialtruth of the Exodus from Egypt, despite a higher criticism which resolves all ancient history into myths ! Nothing strikesone more in the East than the persistence of historic tradition,and it is notable that all the early history recorded in the Penta-teuch is supported by local Arab tradition to this day. We hada delightful voyage across the Indian Ocean. The passage inwinter and spring is one of the finest in the world—always smoothand bright without being too hot. I made the acquaintance ofone noted passenger. Sir Arthur Cotton, the great Indian engineerwho irrigated the deltas of the Godavery and the Kistna, andthoroughly secured from drought a great mass of conversations taught me the imperative need of irrigation in. FIRST VISIT TO INDIA 47 India, and nearly forty years study of India has only convincedme more and more that the secret of fighting famine in India iswidespread irrigation, combined with moderate and fixed landassessment. The seeds of thought I got from Sir Arthur Cottonfructified into many speeches in Parliament on Indian affairs, inwhich I tried to enforce these primary truths ; and I rejoice thatour able Viceroy, Lord Curzon, has appointed a Commission, pre-sided over by Sir Cohn Scott Moncrieff, of Egyptian fame, to studythe whole question of irrigation. We reached Bombay about the end of November. The firstappearance of that splendid harbour, encircled by hills, is very fine,and the first plunge into Indian life is weird and strange to aEuropean—the streets crowded with semi-nude dark - turbanedfigures, the feathery palm trees, the blazing sun, the exuberanttropical vegetation, the stately gait of the proud imperial racethat rules this Empire of nearly 300 mill
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