Intimate glimpses of life in India; a narrative of observations, educational, social, and religious, in the winter of 1899-1900 . overned by the re-quirements of the case. In the month of Septemberthe same procedure is repeated. The same quaintchronicler has left us much information as to the in-trigues and quarrels between the Hindu the Roman Brahmans, as the Portuguesepriests found it expedient to call themselves; as tothe struggles of the British East India Companywith the Mogul officials, the French, and the Portu-guese; and as to other strange occurrences and ad-ventures with
Intimate glimpses of life in India; a narrative of observations, educational, social, and religious, in the winter of 1899-1900 . overned by the re-quirements of the case. In the month of Septemberthe same procedure is repeated. The same quaintchronicler has left us much information as to the in-trigues and quarrels between the Hindu the Roman Brahmans, as the Portuguesepriests found it expedient to call themselves; as tothe struggles of the British East India Companywith the Mogul officials, the French, and the Portu-guese; and as to other strange occurrences and ad-ventures within and around the city of Madras andthe Fort St. George. Madras and Fort George 257 We further paid our respects to the memory ofOld Eli by visiting the tomb of his infant stands back of the Law School building and isof very curious structure. The tablets, or ratherinscriptions, are cut in the stone face of eitherside of an archway which runs through under themonument. On one side is the memorial in oldEnglish to a Mr. Hinmers, Madame Yales first hus-band ; on the other side the memorial to the Gov-ernors infant The places and institutions connected with thehistory of French and Portuguese Catholicism inMadras are scarcely, if at all, less interesting thanthose of the English occupation. Recognizing this,we were driven one day after tea to the Church of 258 Intimate Glimpses of Life in India Saint Thome, where the priest acting as prior in theabsence of his superior showed us every the center of the new cathedral some ten ortwelve feet below the pavement is the gi-ave of SaintThomas, the patron saint of the cathedral and, in-deed, of all this movement of Roman Catholicism inSouthern India. The prior then ordered the sacris-tan to show us the vestments of the bishop,—a Por-tuguese ecclesiastic, under whom is the cathedral andits parish, but who is not subject to the archbishopof Madras. Some of these vestments were em-broidered in Madras, and others—
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